Environmental Health Blog
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Meeting Announcements:
The Environmental Health Project will present
Advancing Environmental Health for Disease Prevention:
Past Experiences and Future Priorities
What: Global Health Council Conference Auxiliary Event*
When: Tuesday, June 1, 2004, 1:30-3:30 pm
Where: Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington DC, Congressional Rooms A & B
Share end-of-project lessons learned from EHP field experiences:Refreshments will be served at 1:15 pm.
• Advancing hygiene improvement for diarrhea prevention
• Strengthening national malaria prevention and control programs
• Linking population-health-environment
• Improving health for the urban poor
iscuss future directions in environmental health programming.
*Conference registration is not required to attend the EHP event.
Visit the EHP web site at www.ehproject.org to download materials related to this event.
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SUZY:
Scaling Up Zinc Treatment for Young Children with Diarrhoea in Bangladesh (SUZY) is a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and supported by USAID.
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B): Centre for Health and Population Research is coordinating a child health project which could save the lives of 30,000 to 75,000 children per year in Bangladesh. In April 2003 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided $6,939,606 in funding over three years to implement a zinc treatment program for diarrhea and pneumonia to children under five in Bangladesh and Ethiopia. The First International Conference on Scaling Up Zinc Treatment for Young Children With Diarrhoea took place April 19-20, 2004 at ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research headquarters in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The SUZY project will, for the first time, provide zinc treatment for diarrhoea on a large scale to the entire under-five-year-old population of Bangladesh. It has been estimated that zinc treatment could save the lives of
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