Partnership saves children’s lives with zinc treatments
Zinc Alliance for Child Health provides financial and technical support to scale up zinc and LO-ORS treatment in countries that have high numbers of children dying from childhood diarrhoeal diseases.
Zinc and LO-ORS
Diarrhoea is a leading killer of children under five, claiming the lives of more than half a million children annually.
Zinc and low-osmolarity rehydration salts (LO-ORS) is the World Health Organization’s recommended treatment for childhood diarrhoea. When provided together, zinc and LO‑ORS help children recover faster from diarrhoeal episodes and prevent diarrhoea-related deaths.
Collaborating to scale up diarrhoea treatments
Zinc
The Zinc Alliance for Child Health (ZACH) is a public-private-civil society partnership with Global Affairs Canada, Teck Resources and Nutrition International. A successful development investment model, ZACH provides financial and technical support to scale up treatment with zinc and LO-ORS in countries that have high numbers of children with diarrhoea.
Building on the successes of the first ZACH program in 2011, the partnership strives to improve care-seeking for childhood diarrhoea and zinc and LO-ORS coverage in Kenya, Ethiopia, Senegal and Bangladesh. This project aims to treat more than 44 million episodes of diarrhoea with zinc and LO-ORS and train more than 61,000 health workers in delivering zinc and LO-ORS treatment for diarrhoea.
The Impact
Treating childhood diarrhoea
Through ZACH, more than 40 million cases of childhood diarrhoea have been treated with zinc and LO-ORS, preventing deaths and helping children recover more quickly so they can have a healthier, happier childhood.
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