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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
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  • 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
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• Breast or bottle
• Who reads Diarrhoea Dialogue
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  • ORT in Turkey
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  • Reproduction and translation
  • Stickiness and sickness
  • Soap, water and shigellosis
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• 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
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• Teaching the teachers: teamwork in primary health care
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• Practical advice series
  • Getting the message across
• Questions and answers
  • Potassium losses and replacement in diarrhoea
• Letters
  • Limited aims
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• A unique chance
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  • 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
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  • Weak tea
  • Dominica
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• Theory into Practice
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• Country profiles
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  • Nepal
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• 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
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  • UNESCO prize
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• 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
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  • 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
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    • 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