This fact sheet aims to raise awareness about oral rehydration therapy to rehydrate people—particularly infants and children—who have lost fluids because of diarrhea. One in a set of introductory resources, it provides stakeholders and policymakers in the world’s poorest countries with crucial information on a proven intervention in the fight against diarrheal disease.

Corporate author(s): PATH

Publication date: January 2008

This publication is part of the series Diarrheal disease fact sheets

Region: Global

See also:

Maternal and child health > Controlling diarrheal disease

Vaccines and immunization > Diarrheal disease

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