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...thanks to a quiet revolution under way, young victims like Suleiman need not perish. Over the past few years, several aid organizations and governments--including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development--have begun distributing zinc supplements to villagers in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. A number of other groups are working with governments in Africa to introduce zinc, which comes both in tablet form and as a syrup. In Mali, Save the Children U.S. used $680,000 from a 2007 American Idol charity concert to distribute zinc tablets to a handful of villages...
...intense frustration of aid groups and government officials, only about 35% of families in diarrhea-stricken countries use ORT--less than half the WHO's target. Until zinc arrived in Sogola, only about 1 in 10 village residents used the sachets when they or their children became ill. That number has soared since Traoré added zinc tablets to the prescription. "Mothers don't see ORT as real treatment," says Eric Swedberg, senior director of child health and nutrition at Save the Children U.S., in Westport, Conn. "But when you add the zinc, you really see the effects. This is quite...
...early 1990s, when researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore gave children in New Delhi a daily dose of syrup containing 20 mg of zinc. The rate of diarrhea dropped dramatically. Because ORT had already proved effective in the fight against diarrhea, though, aid organizations and researchers shifted their focus elsewhere--particularly to the disastrous spread of AIDS. The delay, the WHO's Fontaine says, cost the effort "at least 10 years...
...Aid experts say the huge disparity comes because most diarrhea victims are poor children--invisible to politicians--and because diarrhea itself makes people squeamish. As Time pointed out in an international cover story three years ago, celebrities don't hold concerts for diarrhea. "Compared with malaria and AIDS, we are totally underfunded," says Fontaine. "This is truly a neglected disease...
...travel allowance is granted to “all [international] students receiving financial aid,†Donahue said, and “is included into the cost of attendance and deducted from the expected parent contribution...