Oral Rehydration Therapy and the Control of Diarrheal Diseases (Peace Corps, 1985, 566 pages): Acknowledgments

Oral Rehydration Therapy and the Control of Diarrheal Diseases (Peace Corps, 1985, 566 pages)

		(introductory text...)
		Acknowledgments
		Introduction
		Approach to training
		Module One: Climate setting and assessment
		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
		Peace Corps overseas offices

Acknowledgments

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 Chapponiere	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".