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Cost-effectiveness of zinc as adjunct therapy for acute childhood diarrhoea in developing countries

Presents a cost-effectiveness analysis in terms of DALYs and child deaths averted using a simluation technique with cost data from health facilities in Tanzania. The authors concluded that zinc was highly cost effective and there was sufficient evidence to recommend the includion of zinc into standard case amangemetn of both dysenteric and non-dysenteric acute diarrhoea.