TY - JOUR AU - Chola, Lumbwe AU - Michalow, Julia AU - Tugendhaft, Aviva AU - Hofman, Karen PY - 2015 DA - 2015/04/17 TI - Reducing diarrhoea deaths in South Africa: costs and effects of scaling up essential interventions to prevent and treat diarrhoea in under-five children JO - BMC Public Health SP - 394 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - Diarrhoea is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in South African children, accounting for approximately 20% of under-five deaths. Though progress has been made in scaling up multiple interventions to reduce diarrhoea in the last decade, challenges still remain. In this paper, we model the cost and impact of scaling up 13 interventions to prevent and treat childhood diarrhoea in South Africa. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1689-2 DO - 10.1186/s12889-015-1689-2 ID - Chola2015 ER -