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Deputy Director of the CEBM, GP and clinical lecturer at the University of Oxford.

Cardiology trainee and clinical research fellow at the University of Oxford

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This week, the Lancet released two articles in its “Online First” section, both concerned with the second leading global cause of infant death: diarrhoea. A staggering one in every five child deaths—around 1•5 million a year —is due to diarrhoea, which kills more children than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
The recent cholera outbreak is the worst in Zimbabwe's history, infecting 66,000 people with over 3,300 deaths [1, 2]. Last week, a Red Cross worker wrote a diary from Zimbabwe for the BBC [1]. Despite technological advances it revealed the desperate circumstances under which people are providing and receiving health care in parts of the world, even when the evidence for cause and cure is beyond doubt.
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