![]() And the study found that in 2016 alone, diarrhea cases and deaths stole 40 million years’ worth of time from children under five years of age around the world.īut the study also found that diarrhea’s theft continues even after a child recovers. In other words, it measures how much time diarrhea steals from children-time that could have been spent playing, learning, or growing that is instead spent recovering from diarrhea in a hospital bed, or lost forever due to an early death. The study is the first to measure the global impact of all forms of diarrhea using disability-adjusted life years, or DALYs, that have been lost due to diarrhea. A new study published in the Lancet Global Health offers a deeper understanding of just how much diarrheal disease impacts the lives of children around the world, even after recovery. Children are still being infected at nearly the same rate as they were in 1990. ![]() What’s not falling as rapidly, however, is the number of diarrhea cases. ![]() This is encouraging news-it means that fewer parents are living with the tragedy of a child lost to diarrhea. Global deaths from diarrhea are falling, rapidly. A child in Sudan receives ORS during a hospital stay for severe diarrhea.
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