WaterAid's report Fatal Neglect: How Health Systems Are Failing to Comprehensively Address Child Mortality shows how the aid system is not responding to the causes of child mortality in a targeted manner. The international health agenda is failing to mobilize the required response to critical causes of child deaths. The paper specifically assesses how and why the international aid system is overlooking diarrhea, the second-biggest killer of under-fives after acute respiratory infections.

Author(s): WaterAid America

Published: 2009

Resource types: Report

Diseases: Shigellosis and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC); Rotavirus

Topics: Advocacy and communications; Disease/vaccine specific information

Regions: Global