Diarrheal Disease

We’re taking on diarrheal disease from every angle—developing vaccines, diagnostics, and drugs; leading a movement to raise awareness and break the “poo taboo”; and promoting simple, powerful tools to keep kids safe from its deadly and disabling effects.

Nov. 23, 2021
300 diarrhea experts walk into a room
Nov. 19, 2021
Deadly rotavirus and the vaccines that can stop it
Nov. 29, 2021
Would you buy a vaccine for a disease you'd never heard of?
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  1. Rotavirus was an unfamiliar term to policymakers, but they knew all about the challenges of diarrheal disease. We followed the gold rule of communications--to know your audience--and framed our initiative accordingly. Photo: PATH/Trevor Snapp.
    November 29, 2021

    Would you buy a vaccine for a disease you'd never heard of?

    If we can't name the problem, we can't defeat it. Enter PATH's initiative to defeat diarrheal disease.
  2. Two female health workers carrying a vaccine cooler walk toward a boat in the water
    November 29, 2021

    Inconvenient or deadly? When health is a question of access

    Dr. Namala Mkopi grew used to long days at the National Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Then the country’s introduction of pneumonia and rotavirus vaccines changed everything.
  3. Karen Kotloff, MD, of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (foreground), health economist John D. Anderson, PhD, and others served as panelists at the 2018 VASE Conference in Mexico City. Photo: PATH/Victor Mier.
    November 23, 2021

    300 diarrhea experts walk into a room

    Together, they make real progress developing new tools to prevent one of childhood’s biggest killers.
  4. A child in Zambia receives the rotavirus vaccine. Photo: PATH/Gareth Bentley
    November 19, 2021

    Deadly rotavirus and the vaccines that can stop it

    Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe and fatal diarrhea in young children worldwide, but vaccines can stop this deadly disease.
  5. Health worker writing at desk in clinic. PATH/David Jacobs
    November 9, 2021

    Deciding the best use of health resources? Ask a health economist

    Countries have to determine how to make the best use of limited resources. PATH uses health economics to inform countries' decisions about vaccines.
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    November 9, 2021

    When it comes to vaccines, bigger isn’t always better

    Promising new vaccines against the leading bacterial causes of diarrhea use a detail-oriented approach to battle these bugs.
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