… Scaling up 13 essential interventions could have a substantial impact on reducing diarrhoeal
deaths in South African children, which would contribute toward reducing child mortality in …

… interventions and packages of care could save 54% of diarrhoea and 51% of pneumonia
deaths by … However, if coverage of these key evidence-based interventions were scaled up to at …

… million deaths by 2015. Acceleration of reductions in deaths due to pneumonia and diarrhoea,
which together account for about 2 million child deaths every year, is essential if the target …

… deaths, we have not been able to curtail these deaths. Accelerating the reduction in child
deaths … role in improving the coverage of essential interventions. The role of community health …

… To eliminate the remaining childhood diarrhea deaths globally, all these interventions
will be needed. Scaling up diarrhea treatment and rotavirus vaccine, to 90% coverage could …

… account for 95% of child deaths. LiST is a child survival … -5 death rates and cause of death
profiles to model the effects of changes in health intervention package coverage on deaths …

… Significant reductions in child mortality can be achieved through scale-up of essential
interventions to prevent and treat pneumonia and diarrhoea. Strengthened primary health care …

… We used LiST to estimate the attribution of diarrhoea deaths prevented by interventions
and changes in nutritional risk factors [8]. The LiST modelling approach relies on changes in …

… Millions of children still die unnecessarily from pneumonia and diarrhoea, mainly in
resource-poor … , and prioritise childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea deaths in the coming decade. …

… of childhood diarrhoea fits squarely with this emphasis, and is essential for achieving the …
deaths from diarrhoea and what actions will make a lasting reduction in the burden of diarrhoea…