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		Oral Rehydration Therapy and the Control of Diarrheal Diseases (Peace Corps, 1985, 566 p.)
			(introduction...)
			Acknowledgements
			Introduction
			Approach to training
			Module One: Climate setting and assesment
			Module Two: Diarrhea, dehydration and rehydration
			Module Three: Nutrition and diarrhea
			Module Four: Working with the health system
			Module Five: Working with the community
			Module Six: Community health education
			Bibliography

Acknowledgements

It is only with the help and support of many people that we have been able to obtain the most current information on Diarrheal Disease Control programs, in particular Oral Rehydration Therapy. The authors gratefully acknowledge the following individuals who provided invaluable information, suggestions and critical comments:

Claudette Kaba - Health Specialist, Office of Training and Program Support (OTAPS), Peace Corps Washington

Colleen Conroy - OCCD Project Director, OTAPS, Peace Corps Washington

Robert Clay - Health Advisor, AID Office of Health

Carl Kendall - Health Advisor, AID Office of Health

Robert Hogan - Program Management Officer, WHO Diarrheal Disease Control Program

Eugenia Eng - Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, School of Public Health at Chapel Hill

Kathy Parker - Health Education Specialist, International Health Program Office (IHPO), Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

Melinda Moore - Medical Epidemiologist, IHPO, CDC
CHP International Staff

Special thanks are extended to the individuals at the following agencies that provided information, references, materials and visual aids:

Agency for International Development (AID), Offices of Health
Academy for Educational Development (AED)
Program for International Training in Health (INTRAH)
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Program for the Introduction of Contraceptive Technology (PIACT)
Technologies for Primary Health Care (PRITECH)
United Nations International Children's Education Fund (UNICEF)
Water and Sanitation for Health Project (WASH)
World Health Organization (WHO)

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we extend our sincere thanks to the Peace Corps Washington and APCD Staff, the trainers, and Volunteers in the Philippines, Nepal, Gabon, and Senegal who planned and participated in the field testing of the ORT Training Manual and who provided relevant feedback that we incorporated in the final writing of this manual:

Paulette Chapponlere - Consultant Trainer, Peace Corps,

Hal Collantes - ORT and Health Project Director, Peace Corps, Philippine

Pape Gage - Consultant Trainer, Peace Corps

Tom Leonhardt - Consultant Trainer, Peace Corps,

Suzanne Plopper - Consultant Trainer, Peace Corps

Sanu Kessari - Senior Administrator, Nursing Division, Ministry of Health, Nepal

Harl Pradan - Lecturer in Health Education, Institute of Medicine, Nepal

Padma Raj Rajmandari - Chlef, Training Section, Integrated Community Health Services Development Project, Ministry of Health, Nepal

Chiz Shrestha - Trainer/Consultant, Peace Corps, Nepal

Chiranjvl Thapa - Chief, Health Education Section Deportment Ministry of Health, Nepal

Phyllis Jones - ORT Program Technician, OTAPS, Washington

We hope that the efforts of everyone who participated in the development and testing of this manual and to those who will use it in the future, will lead toward the goal, as stated by Mr. M. Peter McPherson at the International Conference on Oral Rehydration Therapy, "of applying a simple and effective technology to one of the scourges of mankind which is holding tenaciously to societies in the developing countries of the world".