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• Diarrhoea need not kill
• The role of Diarrhoea Dialogue
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  • A study in Nigeria
  • Villagers can save their children
  • Oral rehydration workshop
  • Antibiotic resistance to cholera
  • Water shortages
  • Viral diarrhoea - a big step forward
  • Egyptian programme
• Diarrhoeal control ... opportunities and constraints
  • Issues in oral rehydration
• World Health Organization
  • Diarrhoeal diseases control programme
• The Philippines
  • A national experience in oral rehydration therapy
• Letters
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  • AHRTAG

• Breast or bottle
• Who reads Diarrhoea Dialogue
• News
  • Oral rehydration bibliography
  • ORT in Turkey
  • Infant foods and weanling diarrhoea
  • Reproduction and translation
  • Stickiness and sickness
  • Soap, water and shigellosis
  • CHILD-to-child
• Attitudes and beliefs about diarrhoea: the mother's role
  • To drink or not to drink
• Practical advice series
  • How to recognize dehydration
• Questions and answers
• Letters
  • Oral rehydration
  • Appropriate and practical
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  • Costa Rica
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• Teaching the teachers: teamwork in primary health care
  • Health education for diarrhoea
• Practical advice series
  • Getting the message across
• Questions and answers
  • Potassium losses and replacement in diarrhoea
• Letters
  • Limited aims
  • Local substitutes
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  • Mother's lap

• A unique chance
  • News
  • Guest editor
  • Indonesian Congress
  • Linking resources to needs
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• Communities, water and health
  • Decisions taken by ourselves for ourselves
• Priorities for diarrhoeal disease control: clean water and sanitation
  • Water, excreta, behaviour and diarrhoea
• Practical advice series
  • Choosing a hand pump
• Questions and answers
  • Oral rehydration with dirty water?
• Letters
  • Nothing new
  • Visual impact
  • Weak tea
  • Dominica
  • Hand washing
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• Theory into Practice
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  • Disinfecting with sunlight
  • Teknaf
  • Jamaican study
• Country profiles
  • Water supply and sanitation programmes
  • Nepal
  • Mozambique
• Environmental health: WHO and IDRC research programmes
  • WHO: A major strategy
  • IDRC: Technology is not the bottleneck
• Practical advice series
  • Appropriate latrines
    • The Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine (VIP)
    • The Pour Flush Waterseal Latrine (P/F)
• Questions and answers
  • What are the most useful and easily available sources of potassium?
  • Aspirin and diarrhoea
• Letters
  • Finger-pinch method
  • Technological approach
  • Traditional water purification
  • Critical information

• Diarrhoea and child growth
• News
  • Rice water and diarrhoea
  • Bangkok seminar
  • IRC newsletter
  • Diarrhée Dialogue
  • UNESCO prize
  • Reviews
• Diarrhoeal disease and nutrition in childhood
  • The diarrhoea-malnutrition complex
• Practical advice series
  • Persuading children with diarrhoea to eat
    • Which foods to give
• Questions and answers
  • Homemade solutions
  • Clear instructions
  • How much oral rehydration solution to give
• Letters
  • Urban water supplies
  • Naso-gastric drip
  • Rice water

• Cause - and Effect
• News
  • Publications
  • Diarrhoea agents in the environment
  • Bottles on prescription
• WHO: cholera up-date
  • The most feared of the diarrhoeal diseases
• Taking science where the diarrhoea is
  • Finding the guilty organisms
• Practical advice series
  • Clinician's Guide to Aetiology
• Costa Rica
  • Teaching by example
• Letters
  • Ethiopia: too few medical workers
  • Lack of one litre bottles
  • Naso-gastric feeding in Kiribati...
  • ... and Afghanistan

• Handle with care
• News
  • Children and sanitation
  • Slide sets
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  • Focus on ORT
  • Rice powder research
• Health education
  • Slide shows in Bhutan
• Drugs and the treatment of diarrhoeal diseases
  • Cautious prescription
• Practical advice series
  • Storing and maintaining supplies of oral rehydration salts (ORS)
• Training programmes
  • Pakistan
  • Indonesia
• Letters
  • Lack of one litre bottles for measuring ORS in Nicaragua
  • Effectiveness of Oral Rehydration Therapy
  • Cuban interest
  • Clinician's guide to aetiology

• An integrated approach
• Marking an anniversary
• Best of DD
• Keeping up the dialogue
• News
  • Symposium on chronic diarrhoea
  • The AHRTAG baby length measurer
  • Promoting ORT in Nicaragua
• Letter from Uganda
  • Involving mothers
• Better communication about diarrhoeal diseases
  • Filling the information gap
• Practical advice series: gathering information in the community
  • Carrying out a survey on attitudes to Diarrhoea
    • General points to remember:
• Letters
  • DD in Sierra Leone
  • Information exchange
  • Comments on cholera
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Teaching aids

• Reducing the risks
• News
  • ORT in high fashion
  • Reviews
  • US paediatricians recommend ORT
  • Wall charts published
• Bangladesh
  • Better food for the same money
• Causes and control of chronic diarrhoea
  • A vicious cycle
• Practical advice series
  • Feeding and chronic diarrhoea
• Questions and answers
• Letters
  • ORT and infants
  • Demystifying ORT
  • Diarrhoea: a problem everywhere
  • Kwashiorkor and potassium

• Control programmes: the key role of laboratories
• News
  • Success through education
    • Jamaican materials
    • Poster sets
    • Brazilian workshop
    • WHO catalogue
  • Zimbabwean latrines
• Laboratories and diarrhoeal disease control
  • Collection, transport and examination
• Practical advice series
  • Simple laboratory investigations into diarrhoea
• Reviews
  • Books for medical laboratory workers
• Letters
  • ORT in Tamil Nadu
  • Village programmes
  • Soya milk
  • Traditional remedy in India

• Cholera tamed by ORT
• News
  • The children's revolution
  • Cooperating on communications
    • Dominica: health education in schools
    • Rio de Janeiro: communications workshop
  • Two-way radio newsletter
• Intestinal parasites
  • Causes or contributors?
• Confronting a killer: 100 years of research on cholera
  • The devastating disease
  • Recent developments
• Practical advice series
  • Control strategies
• Reviews
• Letters
  • Saving lives
  • Local foods
  • ORT for adults

• Tunisia: essentials for the future
• Over to you...
• Egypt
  • Specific objectives
• Peru
  • 'Salvadora': over-the-counter success
• WHO training courses for diarrhoeal disease control
  • Supervisory skills
  • Convincing the doctors
• UNICEF
  • ORT in practice
• News
  • Required - sharp teeth and a strong wrist
  • Cholera tamed - or fighting back?
  • King Faisal award
• Letters
  • ORT for adults
  • No sugar available

• Meeting the demand
• News
  • ICORT
  • Facing the problems
  • Oral Rehydration Therapy - The Jamaican Experience
  • Book reviews
• Promoting ORT: integrating mass media, print and visual aids
  • Delivering the goods
• Practical advice series
  • Simple but not easy
• Acute childhood diarrhoea
  • Searching for viruses
• Letters
  • Can liquid ORS be stored safely?
  • No salt or sugar

• Dangerous partners
• News
  • DD on nutrition and diarrhoea
  • 'Power food'
  • Teaching mothers
  • Reviews
  • Commonwealth meeting in 1984
  • Dr Cicely Williams
• Food is good for diarrhoea: when and how?
  • Enriched ORT
  • Carry on feeding
• Practical advice series
  • Breast to family diet
• North Yemen
  • Combining science with tradition
• Letters
  • Information through illustrations
  • Lines of communication
  • Using DD for surveys
  • DD for extension workers

• Diarrhoea and immunization - a valuable ally?
• News
  • Swing to ORT in Britain
  • King Faisal International Prize
  • ICDDR, B Journal
  • Early immunization against measles?
• Rotaviruses
  • Expectations for a vaccine
• Measles immunization in diarrhoeal disease control
  • Priority intervention?
• Practical advice series
  • Solving problems locally
• Typhoid vaccines
  • Outlook for the future
• Letters
  • Attitudes, beliefs and practices
  • Honey in ORT
  • Stopping the leak
  • Distributing ORS
  • Practical books

• Breastfeeding: best start for all babies
• News
  • ORT in East Germany
  • Arabic DD
  • Portugal: rediscovering breastfeeding
  • Urban priority
  • Tropical Diseases Bulletin
  • Journal of Diarrhoeal Diseases Research
  • WHO study
  • The Code: country evaluation
• Breastfeeding: helping to reduce the severity of diarrhoea
  • Protection, energy and nutrients
• Collecting, processing and storing breastmilk in the U.K. and India
  • Perspectives on human milk banking
  • Passport to life
• Letters
  • Still set-backs
  • Technical and practical information
  • Rural health care in Turkey
  • Condensing research
  • Harmful beliefs
  • French DD in the Ivory Coast

• Making progress
• News
  • Solomon Islands' success
  • Water and sanitation: health impact?
  • Handwashing helps
  • WHO water checklist
• Water programme in Nigeria
  • Promoting health
• Five years on: review of the WHO/CDD programme
  • Strengthening national initiatives
• Practical advice series
  • How to make soap
• Major health benefits
  • On-site sanitation
• Letters
  • Sharing problems
  • Breastfeeding during diarrhoea
  • DD: health education
  • Changing doctors' attitudes
  • Practical ideas

• ORT: the life-saving solution
• News
  • ORS: new formula gives longer shelf life
  • Portuguese DD
  • Media information
  • ORT successes in Burkina Faso
  • UNICEF Report
• ORT: the biggest campaign
  • Teaching millions individually
• Accepting ORT: reports from Haiti and Swaziland
  • Programming on a shoestring
  • Discovering oral rehydration therapy
• Teaching aids
  • Audio-visual materials
• ORS research
  • Advances with rice-powder ORS
• Letters
  • Portuguese DD in Africa
  • Making soap in Bangladesh
  • Can you help?
  • Diarrhoea in the U.S.A.
  • DD for schools

• The first five years
• News
  • AID: Review of ORT activities
  • DD Questionnaire report
• Country profile
  • Zimbabwe: Treating diarrhoea early
• Operational research in the public sector: implementation and priorities
  • Making it work
• Practical advice
  • How to write a funding proposal
• Improving ORT delivery
  • Problem-solving research
• Letters
  • Somalia: stressing health education
  • DD in Sri Lanka
  • Soap-making on a small scale
  • ARI News

• Blindness linked with diarrhoea
• News
  • WHO booklet: training health workers
  • Book review
  • Diarrhoea and cataract
  • ICORT II
• Diarrhoea and refugee communities
  • Permanent crisis
• Diarrhoeal diseases: combatting the long-term effects
  • Treating the whole child
• Practical advice series
  • Vitamin A: preventing blinding malnutrition
• Letters
  • ORT in Fiji
  • Motivating the community
  • Importance of DD
  • Farsi edition
  • Diarrhoea in refugee communities
  • Using the DD index
  • Health basics
  • Ways to promote ORT in India
  • Reducing nausea and vomiting
  • Diarrhoea and malnutrition
  • Writing a proposal

• Newborns and diarrhoea
• News
  • Nutrition forum
  • ORT in practice
  • Reviews
  • Nepal: preventing dehydration
  • ORT in infants
• Dealing with diarrhoea in newborn infants
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  • Approaches to rehydration
  • Careful management
• Clinical advice page
  • Successful ORT
• Country profile: Mozambique
  • Training nurses
• Letters
  • Convinced about ORS
  • Unnecessary prescribing
  • Local remedies
  • DD for training

• Diarrhoea, feeding and watching their weight
• News
  • Reviews
  • Easier to open
  • Promoting better nutrition: Leaf Nutrient
  • ORT: educational campaign in Malawi
  • Tata Trust
  • Nutrition forum
  • WHO manual: ORS production
• Practical issues in growth monitoring
  • Diarrhoea and growth
• Clear and appropriate messages
  • Home fluids: food or drink?
  • Promoting ORT correctly
• Practical advice page
  • Feeding the anorexic child
• Persistent diarrhoea
  • Adding to malnutrition
• Letters
  • Doctors still need convincing
  • Solar dryer for Vitamin A

• Maintaining the momentum
• News
  • Water conference 1988
  • ICORT II
  • Publications
  • Breastfeeding - two new books
  • Training for ORS production
• ICORT II
  • A global strategy
  • Implementation questions
• ICORT II: Excerpts from the keynote speeches
  • Effective implementation of ORT Programmes
  • Diarrhoea is a nutritional disease
  • Interventions for diarrhoea control
  • ORT: the future
  • Highlights and conclusions
  • ORT facts
• Channels for promoting ORT
  • The traditional healer
  • The community pharmacist
• Letters
  • Creating confidence in ORS
  • Unnecessary i.v. therapy
  • Blindness and diarrhoea
  • DD21 update: vitamin A

• Drugs and bloody diarrhoea
  • News
    • International Health Congress
    • Diagnostic needs: questionnaire
    • Child Survival Action News
    • ORT in practice
    • ORT literature
    • DD subscriptions
    • Directory of periodicals
    • Getting the message across
    • Health care - a wider approach
    • ORT in Saudi Arabia
  • Dysentery: an overview
    • Still problems to resolve
  • Diarrhoea management
    • Drug treatment
  • Practical advice series
    • Medicines with care
• Development of oral rehydration
  • Australia: Diarrhoea in Aboriginal children
  • Pakistan: Early use of ORS
• Letters
  • Carry on feeding
  • Leaf nutrient for malnutrition
  • Different tastes in water
  • ORT activities in Turkey

• Climate, customs and diarrhoea
• News
  • Water handling and cholera
  • Money for research
  • Coconut water for rehydration?
  • ORS production
  • Breastfeeding - a new book
• The seasons and diarrhoea
  • The Gambia and Bangladesh
• Environment, behaviour and the spread of diarrhoea
  • A vulnerable age
  • Soiled saris
• Practical advice series
  • Using a nasogastric tube
    • Equipment
• Country report
  • An ORT centre in Malawi
• Letters
  • ORS composition
  • Taste and temperature
  • Hygiene outside the home

• Diarrhoea and gut parasites
• News
  • Refugee camps: reducing diarrhoea
  • Refugee camps: setting up a laboratory
  • Feeding and Diarrhoea
  • Vitamin A publication
  • Symposium proceedings
  • Nutrition poster
• Parasites and diarrhoea
  • An intestinal zoo
  • Parasites and diarrhoea: research needs
  • Cryptosporidia
  • Trichuriasis
  • Strongyloides
  • Giardiasis
  • Amoebiasis
• Letters
  • Fighting incorrect beliefs
  • More on vitamin A
  • ORT in Turkey
  • DD mailing list

• Time for action
• News
  • ORT in practice: Egypt
  • Hospital 'Friends'
  • New ORT film
  • ORT in practice: China
  • DD translations
  • Disease diagnosis
  • ICORT II
  • DD readership survey
  • Practical evaluation
• Choosing an appropriate home fluid
  • Oral rehydration in the home
  • What drinks to give: carrying out a survey
• WHO decision-making guidelines
  • Advantages and Disadvantages of possible home fluids for preventing dehydration
• Problems with home ORS
  • Lessons from Africa
• Letters
  • Seawater for OR solution?
  • Acceptance of ORS solution
  • Ready-made solution?
  • Treating dysentery
  • Vomiting and ORT
  • Sorai storage
  • Diarrhoea in the U.K.
  • Using a nasogastric tube

• Training the trainers
  • News
    • India: ORT survey
    • Weaning foods and diarrhoea
  • Oral rehydration therapy
    • Improving medical education
  • The physician and ORT
    • Recent initiatives
  • ORT: An American perspective
  • Practical advice page
    • Evaluation of training
  • Early learning about ORT
    • Children can be teachers
    • A diarrhoea game
• Letters
  • Oral rehydration and the medical profession
  • News about DD

• Women and family Health
• News
  • 'A Handle on Health'
  • Award to DD Editor
  • AIDS Newsletter
  • Poster competition
  • Training materials
  • Feedback on ORT
• Publications
• Water supply, sanitation and diarrhoea
  • The role of women
  • A stimulus to PHC?
  • Hygiene education
  • Improved facilities
• Practical advice series
  • Water purification
• Community involvement
  • Bangladesh: the Mirzapur project
  • Zimbabwe: encouraging families to build latrines
• Letters
  • Training medical students
  • Motivating pharmacists

• Diarrhoea and city children
• News
  • Announcements
  • Brazil: community financing
  • Thailand: village water tanks
  • Laboratory aids
• Poor urban neighbourhoods
  • Water and sanitation "do's and don'ts"
  • Diarrhoea in urban slums
  • Bombay
  • Karachi
  • Acute respiratory infection and diarrhoea
  • A natural collaboration
• Letters
  • Asking too much
  • Learning through doing
  • Drugs, diet and diarrhoea
  • Public latrines

• Weaning breastfeeding, and diarrhoea
• News
  • ORS: flavouring and colouring
  • Cholera update
  • Communication guide
  • Intestinal worms
  • Eye health bulletin
• ORT in practice: India
  • CDD market research
• ORT in practice: Mozambique
  • Evaluating effective use
• Country report
  • Jordan: diarrhoea and the urban poor
• Letters
  • Mother-child interaction and stimulation
  • DD for schools
  • The right soaking solution
  • ORT and vomiting
  • Promoting ORT at the university level
  • Wrong idea about ORS
  • Points about diarrhoea management

• Child survival - a universal concern
• Viewpoints
  • Iran: attitudes to treatment and use of antibiotics
  • Leaf concentrate consumption and diarrhoea
  • Using ORS packets to measure water volume?
• News
  • IDD newsletter
  • ORS flavouring and colouring: follow-up
  • AHRTAG's resource centre
• Vitamin A and diarrhoea
  • Reducing the risk?
  • News and Information about Vitamin A
• ORT in practice
  • A nursing perspective
• Letters
  • Drugs for diarrhoea?
  • Drinking water storage
  • Welcome DD in Bengali
  • Giving oral polio vaccine
  • Preventing neonatal tetanus
  • Teaching with DD
  • Public latrines
  • Living with disease - urban slums
  • Water purification

• An overview of the CDD activities
  • CDD review: agency reports
    • WHO
    • USAID
    • UNICEF
• Child spacing
  • Impact on health
• Viewpoint
  • Indonesia
  • Papua New Guinea
• Key issues in ORT
• News
  • ORS packets: a practical manual
  • Funds for small-scale health education projects
  • ICORT Ill: 'ORT in the 1990's - ensuring sustainability'
  • Local use of DD
• Question and answer

• State of the World's Children
• New publications
  • Health Care Together
  • Small Scale Sanitation
  • Wall Chart
  • Rehabilitation newsletter from AHRTAG
• Diarrhoea and AIDS
  • Enteric agents associated with diarrhoea in AIDS
• Diarrhoea pathophysiology
  • Mechanisms of diarrhoea and why they matter
• Correct measures
  • Home-made ORS
• Letters
  • Changing patterns of drug use
  • Accepting ORT
  • Using ORS packets to measure water volume
  • A problem solved?
  • ORS - correct use?
  • Practical disinfection

• Care with food cuts diarrhoea risk
  • Food borne illness
    • World overview
    • The WHO Golden Rules for safe food preparation
    • Case study: Leeds, UK
      • Hygiene, food safety and diarrhoea
    • Practical advice
      • Preventing food borne infections
    • Weaning foods
      • Breaking the chain of infection
• Improving environmental hygiene
  • How to plan a community based project
  • General guidelines for community development
  • Environmental health in the Caribbean
• News
  • ICORT III conference report: ensuring sustainability
  • Child-to-child

• Persistent diarrhoea
  • WHO: Meeting report
  • WHO Guidelines: Nutritional management of persistent diarrhoea
  • Appropriate dietary management
  • Composition of diets used in persistent diarrhoea
• Feeding bottles
  • A source of faecal contamination
• Questions and answers
  • Lactose intolerance
    • How do you know if a baby really has lactose intolerance?
    • Managing clinically important lactose intolerance in infants
• Letters
• Students as communicators
  • Combining beliefs
  • ORS and Vitamin A Deficiency
  • Involvement of other professionals

• Tell, show and do
• News and views
• ORT in practice
  • Training methods
• CDD training activities
  • Diarrhoea Training Unit
  • Supplies for a Diarrhoea Training Unit
  • Step-by-step planning
• Breastfeeding promotion
  • The right start
• Practical advice
  • How to teach
• Letters
  • What is weaning?
  • Food hygiene and infection
  • Latrine confusion
  • Improving latrines

• What people think and do about diarrhoea
  • Investigating beliefs
    • Research methods
    • Collecting information
    • Brazil: a RAP survey
  • Beliefs and behaviour
    • Why do mothers wash their hands?
• Viewpoints
  • Uganda: newborns, false teeth and diarrhoea
  • Promoting breastfeeding in urban communities
  • Beliefs of rural mothers about diarrhoea in Orissa, India
  • Diarrhoea in Nicaragua: causes and local remedies
  • Beliefs and behaviour: the Maasai in Kenya and Tanzania

• Safer weaning
• News and views
  • Anti-diarrhoeal withdrawn
  • Vitamin A project
  • Improved weaning foods: Peru
• Book reviews
• Fermented food
  • Reducing contamination
• Improved weaning foods
  • Germinated flours
  • Sprouted grains, peas and beans: research from the Philippines
• Adapting food technologies
  • But what do mothers think?
    • Fermentation in Kenya
    • Germination in Tanzania
• Letters
  • Education is most important
  • More than plain water
  • Vitamin A in ORS?
  • Breastfeeding and pregnancy

• ORT today and tomorrow
• WHO guidelines
  • Selection of home fluids
• How to make a rice based drink for oral rehydration
• Research reports
  • Cereal based ORT
• Practical advice
  • How to feed a baby who cannot breastfeed
  • Cups are better than bottles because...
• Questions and answers
  • Diarrhoea and potassium
• Letters
  • Traditional recipe
  • Does ORS treat diarrhoea
  • Local beliefs
  • ORS for diabetics?

• Drugs and childhood diarrhoea
  • Use of ORS and drugs for diarrhoea
• Drugs and diarrhoea
  • Neomycin
  • Streptomycin
  • How do we know if a drug really works?
  • Hydroxyquinolines
• Questions and answers
  • Antibiotic resistance
• Country reports
  • Pakistan: Should ORS be marketed like other drugs?
  • Indonesia: Drug prescribing for diarrhoea
  • Peru: Co-ordinated national action
• Resources
  • Further reading

• More about drugs and diarrhoea
• Abstracts and news
  • Antibiotic resistance
  • Breastfeeding prevents infection
  • ORS better than drugs
  • Folate for diarrhoea?
• Prescribing practices
  • Physicians' behaviour
  • The ADDR Project
• Drugs and diarrhoea
  • Antimotility drugs
    • Loperamide
    • Diphenoxylate hydrochloride
• Discussion point
  • Worms and community health
• Preventing diarrhoea
  • Low Cost sanitation
• Letters
  • Questions about SSS
  • Training pharmacists
  • Correction

• Anti-diarrhoeal drugs unmasked
  • Drugs and diarrhoea
    • Adsorbents and sulphonamides
      • Kaolin and pectin
      • Other adsorbents
      • Sulphonamides
    • Drugs and diarrhoea: book review
• Advice from the doctor
  • To feed or not to feed?
• Reports from the journals
  • Is oral rehydration therapy cost effective?
  • Cereal based ORT: pros and cons
• Letters
  • Appropriate drug marketing
  • Is industrial salt safe for ORT?
  • Ethiopia: local beliefs about nutrition
  • Value of breastfeeding during diarrhoea
  • ORS - given too late in diarrhoea treatment
  • More ideas for nutritious weaning foods
  • A cautionary tale: dysentery

• Diarrhoea and dire circumstances
• Cholera
  • Epidemic control
  • Case study 1: Cholera control in a refugee camp
  • Case study 2: An emergency treatment centre saves lives
  • How to recognise and treat cholera
• Animals and infection
  • A danger to human health?
  • Chickens and childhood diarrhoea
  • ORT for animals
• Prescribing practice
  • What changes behaviour?
  • Antibiotics and diarrhoea
• News and views
  • Diarrhoea management - Britain lags behind
  • ORT is useful for treating adults

• Best beginning: breastmilk
• Support groups
  • Help for breastfeeding mothers
  • Helping mothers
  • How support groups work
  • How to set up a support group
  • Some advantages of breastfeeding
  • International breastfeeding support organisations
• Bottle-feeding and diarrhoea
  • The dangers of 'follow-up' feeds
• Breast is best
  • Reducing infection
  • Baby-friendly hospitals
  • Dummies and diarrhoea
• Gardening for nutrition
  • Growing food: growing healthy
  • Case study: gardening in The Gambia
• News and letters
  • Collaborating on cholera
  • Progress in ORT
  • Drugs and dysentery
  • Success in Trinidad

• Ask, listen... but don't forget to look
• Diarrhoea and hygiene behaviour
  • Learning about what people do and why
    • Why do we need to know about hygiene behaviour?
    • How is hygiene behaviour studied?
  • Designing health education messages
• Worms and child health
  • Water and sanitation are not enough
  • Comment
• Questions and answers about ORT
  • A child refusing to drink?
  • Correct recipe for SSS?
  • Alternatives to packets?
  • Different formulations?
• News
  • ORT success in the Soviet Union
  • USA learns ORT lessons

• Best of both worlds
• Approaches to treatment
  • When do people seek help ... and from whom?
  • Checklist of questions for health workers
  • Mexico
  • Thailand
  • Peru
  • Traditional medicine
• Why families choose traditional remedies
  • "We tell mothers to use ORS and they don't"
• Traditional healers and remedies
  • Healers and health services: working together?
  • Zambia: advantages and disadvantages
  • Brazil: the ORT 'ritual'
  • Cameroon: interest in oral rehydration therapy
  • Uganda: first source of health care
  • Problems with purging practices
  • 'Modern' enemas: toxic chemicals
• Viral diarrhoeas
  • Developments in diagnosis and vaccines
• Letters
  • Deworming for older children?
  • Traditional handwashing
  • 'Keep animals out of your house!'

• The child and its environment
• Breast is best... but breast alone is best of all
  • Exclusive breastfeeding
  • Extra drinks are unnecessary
  • Health workers: beliefs versus advice
• Off to a bad start
  • Low birth weight babies
  • Home treatment for infants with diarrhoea
• Cholera
  • Facing up to the threat
• Water and waste disposal
  • Low cost sewerage
  • Self-managed sanitation
  • Women take action
  • Sewerage checklist
• Letters
  • Refrigerated SSS?
  • Treating cholera

• DD turns 50: looking forward
• The role of nurses
  • Promoting the benefits of breastfeeding
  • How to help a woman to re-establish lactation
  • Advising on home management of diarrhoea
  • UK nurses need basic ORT training
  • Resource package for nurse training
  • Sahel nurse training scheme
• Question and Answer
  • Gluten intolerance
• Handbooks for health
• Letters
  • Glass-sized SSS
  • Super 'ORS' recipe
  • Rice electrolyte solution
  • Soya bean success

• Evaluation is a useful tool - not a threat
• Evaluation
  • Evaluation means asking: how are we doing?
  • WHO's household survey
  • Providing a global picture
  • The selection of samples for surveys
  • Vietnam measures progress
  • Taking a partnership approach
• Practical advice
  • Breastfeeding twins: double the benefits
    • Suggestions for comfortable feeding positions
• Letters
  • Jamaica's promotion of rehydration fluid
  • The dangers of purging
  • Exclusive breastfeeding...
  • ...and extra drinks

• ORT: a life-saving solution
• ORT
  • Back to basics: What is ORT?
  • Weighing up the choices of solutions for home therapy
  • Understanding Dehydration
  • The experience of India
  • The pioneering years
  • Health workers' opinions
• Practical advice
  • A useful guide to giving ORT at home
  • WHO's guidelines for home care to prevent dehydration
• Letters
  • Treatment of Cholera
    • Misuse of tetracycline
    • Advice welcomed
  • Does teething cause diarrhoea?

• Eat your way to health
• Nutrition
  • An introduction to nutrition
  • Planning good mixed meals
  • Feeding during diarrhoea
  • Persistent diarrhoea
• Breastfeeding advice
  • 'I do not have enough milk.'
• Micronutrients
  • Vitamin A and children's health
  • Good food sources of vitamin A
  • Action on improving diets
• News
  • New strain of cholera reported
  • NGO nutrition strategies
  • Breastfeeding resource list

• Hygienic habits in the home
• Hygiene behaviour
  • Prevention priorities
  • Successful community involvement
  • Soap, mud or ashes
  • The sustainable use of soap
  • Involving the private sector
  • 'Tippy tap' saves water
    • How to make a 'tippy tap'
• Letters
  • Exclusive breastfeeding
  • Evaluating the cost
  • Questioning appropriateness

• Breaking the drug habit
• Combating drug misuse
  • Educating drug sellers
  • Who is the target audience for the training?
  • A choice of training methods
  • Working with pharmacists in Kenya
  • Regulation plus education
  • North-south network
  • Successful campaign
  • Countering misleading marketing
  • Guidelines on drug use for children with diarrhoea
  • Regulatory actions against anti-diarrhoeals taken around the world in 1990-92
• Letters
  • Prescribing habits changed
  • Are laboratory tests needed?
  • Better business in drugs
  • Drug peddling in Nigeria
  • NGO nutrition strategies

• Making weaning safer
• Food hygiene
  • Facts about food hygiene
  • Weaning a critical time for diarrhoea transmission
  • Golden rules for safe food preparation
  • What changes are possible in practice?
  • Improved cookstoves save fuel and money
• Nutrition education
  • Addressing urban families' nutrition
  • Providing more than just low-cost food
• Micronutrients
  • Zinc-diarrhoea link
• Letters
  • Exclusive breastfeeding views
  • Milk for motherless infants
  • Readers' information needed for mailing list update

• Sanitation solutions
• Sanitation - an unmet challenge
• Learning from people
• The Sanplat system
• Simpler, cheaper VIP latrines
  • Stages in construction of a low-cost VIP
• Emergency measures
  • Another option: shallow trench latrines
• Urban alternatives: the dry-box
• Further reading on sanitation
• Letters
  • A picture of hygiene
  • Peer communication best
  • Prevention: where to start?

• Communication skills
• Communication
  • Advising mothers
    • Summary of steps taught in training activities
  • A good question
  • Practical exercise for training courses
  • What is communication?
  • Active listening
  • Repeating and interpreting
  • Story-telling
  • Plain language is best
  • Putting it into practice
    • Table of observed behaviour
    • Table of health workers' advice reported by mothers
  • Qualitv consultations
• Resources and letters
  • HealthCorn
  • On the boil
  • Singing the praises of ORT
  • Oxfam support

• Breastfeeding is best feeding
• Breastfeeding
• Training health care workers to counsel breastfeeding mothers
• Counselling in a hospital setting
  • Steps in lactation counselling
• Congratulations to the mothers
• Women, work and Breastfeeding
  • Neli's success story
• HIV and infant feeding
  • What is HIV?
• Breastfeeding in emergencies
• News and letters
  • Misleading promotion of breastmilk substitutes
  • Breastfeeding resource list
  • Obituary - Dr. Katherine Elliott
  • New child health newsletter

• Teaching not preaching
• Child Health Dialogue
• Learning and teaching
  • Participatory learning
  • Visual aids: a range of uses
  • Further reading on participatory methods
  • Participatory tools
    • Mapping
    • Three pile sorting
  • Child-to-Child
  • Teaching methods
• Letter and news
  • Zealous promotion of breastfeeding is not the answer
  • WHO distance learning course
  • Newsletter name competition

Health Basics Oral Rehydration Therapy
A supplement to Issue 19  December 1984

• Oral Rehydration Therapy
  • What is dehydration?
  • What is ORT?
  • How does ORT work?
  • Can ORS he used for everyone?
  • Using ORT to Prevent and Treat Dehydration
  • What to do if Dehydration occurs
    • How to assess the degree of dehydration
    • Plan A: No Dehydration
    • Plan B: For Some Dehydration
    • Plan C: For Severe Dehydration
  • What should be done if the child vomits?
  • Should feeding continue at the same time as ORT?
  • What sort of foods are good during diarrhoea?
  • Is it necessary to use drugs as well as ORT?
  • Can the solution be made with dirty water?
  • Can ORS solution be stored?
  • ORT: Country Examples
    • Trinidad and Tobago
    • India
    • Ethiopia
    • The Gambia
    • Philippines
  • ORT Resource List

Photographic Competition Results
A supplement to Issue 22  September 1985

• Photographic Competition Results
  • Nigeria: nutrition training for mothers
  • Bangladesh: ORT for adults too ...
  • Nepal: breast to family diet
  • Philippines: better family health
  • Bangladesh: health education essential
  • Tanzania: community participation
  • Burkina Faso: using visual aids
  • India: clean water supplies reducing diarrhoea
  • Peru: integrated community development
  • Bhutan: positive practices

Health Basics Growth Monitoring
A supplement to Issue 24  March 1986

• Growth Monitoring
  • Why Measure Growth
  • What to Measure
    • Weight-for-age
    • Weight-for-length / height
    • Height-for-age
    • Mid-upper arm circumference
  • How to Measure
    • Weighing scales
    • Equipment for measuring arm circumference
    • Equipment for measuring height and length
    • Estimating a child's age
  • Keeping records
  • Country Examples
    • Indonesia
    • Thailand
    • Colombia
    • Jamaica
    • Ghana
  • Resource List

Health Basics Immunisation
A supplement to Issue 30  September 1987

• Immunisation
  • What is immunisation?
  • Why immunise?
  • The six major childhood immunisations
    • Measles
    • Diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus
    • Polio
    • BCG
  • The Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI)
  • What factors contribute to successful national immunisation programmes?
  • Who should be immunised and at what age?
  • A schedule recommended by WHO to assure protection at an early age
  • Missed immunisation dates
  • Organisation
  • Reaction to immunisation
  • Can a sick child be immunised?
  • Immunising safely
  • What is the cold chain?
  • Vaccine storage
  • What are the problems associated with immunisation programmes?
  • Recommended storage temperatures and times
  • Vaccine development
  • How can diarrhoeal disease control and immunisation activities be combines?
  • Resource List

Health Update Water and Sanitation
A supplement to Issue 31  December 1987

• Water and Sanitation
  • Safe Water
    • Safe water from wells
    • Safe water from public taps
    • Prevention of contamination between collection and use
    • Points to remember:
  • Safe Waste Water Disposal
  • Personal Hygiene
    • The importance of handwashing
  • Domestic Hygiene
  • Excreta Disposal
    • Where there is no latrine
    • Children and excreta disposal
    • Locating a latrine
    • Choosing a latrine
    • Latrine Comparisons
    • Latrines
    • Types of latrines
  • Resource List

Health Basics Weaning
A supplement to Issue 32 March 1988

• Weaning
  • What is weaning?
  • When to start giving extra foods?
  • How should weaning foods be given, and how often?
  • What are good weaning foods?
  • Food from the family pot
  • Cooking weaning foods
  • Preparing weaning foods
  • Storing weaning foods
  • Personal hygiene and weaning foods
  • Why do weaning age babies get malnourished?
  • Why do weaning age babies often get diarrhoea?
  • The weanling with diarrhoea
  • Weaning education
  • Feeding the weaning child
  • Home and community weaning food production
  • Resource List

Children's Poster Competition
A supplement to Issue 33  June 1988

• Children's Poster Competition
  • First Prize Winner - over ten years age group
  • 20 runners-up in the ten years and under age group
  • 20 runners-up in the over ten years age
  • First Prize Winner-ten years and under age group

Health Extra Practical Hygiene
A supplement to Issue 36  March 1989

• Practical Hygiene
  • How to keep drinking water clean
  • Handwashing
  • How to keep the community well water supply clean
  • How to keep your latrine clean
  • How to keep your food clean
  • How to keep your neighbourhood clean
  • Resource List

Health Basics Breastfeeding
A supplement to Issue 37  June 1989

• Breastfeeding
  • Why breastfeed?
  • Why does breastfeeding need to be promoted?
  • Successful breastfeeding
    • Before the birth
    • After the baby is born
    • How to help
  • Positioning the baby at the breast
  • Expressing breast milk
  • Breastfeeding and diarrhoea
  • Facts about breastfeeding
  • Problem solving
  • Resource List

Health Education Teaching Tools and Techniques
A supplement to Issue 39  December 1989

• Teaching Tools and Techniques
  • Learning by doing
  • Using pictures
  • How to make and use a flannelboard
  • How to make an easel
  • How to make a chalkboard
  • Making posters
  • Using words
  • Copying and adapting pictures
  • Adapting pictures
  • Games
  • Using dolls
  • Using drama, song and storytelling
  • Using puppets
• Resource List

Clinical Update Shigellosis
A supplement to Issue 44  March 1991

• Shigellosis
  • What causes shigellosis?
  • Who gets shigellosis, and how common is it?
  • What are the effects of
  • How can shigellosis be identified?
  • Treatment of shigellosis in children
  • Appropriate antibiotics for shigellosis
  • How can shigellosis be prevented?
  • Steps to eradication

Health Update Refugees and Displaced Communities
A supplement to Issue 45  June 1991

• Refugees and Displaced Communities
  • The refugee community
  • Assessing the situation
    • Water
    • Sanitation and hygiene
  • Priorities for action
    • Providing water
      • Making water safe for household use by chlorination
    • Protecting water sources:
      • Wells
      • Springs
      • Surface water (river or lake)
    • Water storage and purification
    • Sanitation and hygienic waste disposal
    • Strategies for waste disposal
      • Setting aside defecation areas
      • Building latrines
      • Properly disposing of children's faeces
      • Disposing of solid waste
      • Disposing of waste water
    • Hygiene
    • Community education
    • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Epidemic cholera in refugee camps
  • Resources: Sources of Information

Clinical Update Persistent Diarrhoea
A supplement to Issue 48  March 1992

• Persistent Diarrhoea
  • What is persistent diarrhoea?
  • Is it a serious problem?
  • What causes persistent diarrhoea?
  • What increases the risk of persistent diarrhoea?
  • Treatment
    • Evaluating the benefits of giving nutritious food with a low lactose content
  • Why treatment sometimes fails
  • Key issues for future research

Health Update Diarrhoea and Drugs
A supplement to Issue 50  September 1992

• Diarrhoea and Drugs
  • Reasons for drug use
  • Guidelines for correct use of drugs
  • What happens in practice?
  • How can we change behaviour?
  • What is the way forward?

Health Update Controlling Cholera
A supplement to Issue 52  March - May 1993

• Controlling Cholera
  • Fact File
  • Countries reporting cholera in 1992
  • How to assess and treat cholera patients
    • Step 1 Assess for dehydration
    • Step 2 Rehydration
    • Step 3 Maintain hydration
    • Step 4 Antibiotic treatment
    • Step 5 Feed the patient
  • The low fatality rate in Peru
  • How to prevent the spread of disease
  • Resources

Health Update Epidemic dysentery
A supplement to Issue 55  December 1993 - February 1994

• Epidemic dysentery
  • Definitions
  • A comparison of epidemics of dysentery and cholera
  • Detecting and managing an epidemic of Sd1
    • Drug dosages for treating dysentery caused by Sd1
    • Clinic supplies for 100 persons with dysentery
  • Refugee crisis spreads disease
  • South Asia also affected by Sd1
  • Supportive treatment is vital
  • Prevention strategies