When Kenyan Children’s Lives Hang on a Drip

Inter Press Service: Acute watery diarrhoea is a major killer of young children but misunderstanding over the benefits of fluid treatment is preventing many Kenyan parents from resorting to this life-saving technique and threatening to reverse the strides that the country has made in child health. The 2014 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, released in April this year, reports that the country's under-five mortality rate fell to 52 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2014, down from the 74 deaths in 2008-09, but still......

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