Burkina Faso - Diarrhea treatment

Diarrhea treatment (% of children under 5 receiving oral rehydration and continued feeding)

Definition: Children with diarrhea who received oral rehydration and continued feeding refer to the percentage of children under age five with diarrhea in the two weeks prior to the survey who received either oral rehydration therapy or increased fluids, with continued feeding.

Source: UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, and Demographic and Health Surveys.

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Year Value
1993 19.20
2003 47.30
2006 42.00
2010 32.60
2015 44.40

Diarrhea treatment (% of children under 5 who received ORS packet)

The value for Diarrhea treatment (% of children under 5 who received ORS packet) in Burkina Faso was 39.50 as of 2015. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 39.50 in 2015 and a minimum value of 9.00 in 1986.

Definition: Percentage of children under age 5 with diarrhea in the two weeks preceding the survey who received oral rehydration salts (ORS packets or pre-packaged ORS fluids).

Source: UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, and Demographic and Health Surveys.

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Year Value
1986 9.00
1987 15.00
1989 15.00
1993 12.00
1999 14.60
2003 18.90
2006 16.50
2010 21.20
2015 39.50

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Disease prevention