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May 1981, Vol 135, No. 5 >
Article | May 1981

The Child in the Third World FREE

Tim Lusty, MB, BCh
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Read at the American Ambulatory Pediatric Association meeting, San Antonio, Tex, April 28, 1980.

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Am J Dis Child. 1981;135(5):462-466. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1981.02130290058018.
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Rather than give an academic treatise or an emotive report on the problems of the poor, it seems best to describe something that is important and that I know something about: the health care of children in poor countries and what can be done to ease their problems. I will also, in this context, discuss the role of nongovernmental agencies (NGOs) like OXFAM. Most of this report reviews what has already been said elsewhere, but problems of these children are sufficiently grave to justify reemphasis.

HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE THIRD WORLD  I remember debating in the highlands of Ethiopia with another physician on what to do about a malnourished child with severe diarrhea: should the physician administer an intravenous infusion or not? The mother had lost her husband and the rest of her children in the famine; so in spite of the near hopelessness of the situation we decided to

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Morley D: Paediatric Priorities in Developing Countries . Washington, DC, Butterworth Inc, 1974;.
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Charney E:  George Armstrong, an early activist: Classics from medical literature . Am J Dis Child 1974;;128:824-826.
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Feachem R, McGarry M, Mara D: Water Wastes and Health in Hot Climates . New York, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1977;.
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Morley D: Paediatric Priorities in Developing Countries . Washington, DC, Butterworth Inc, 1974;.
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Waterlow JC, Payne P:  The protein gap . Nature 1975;;258:113-117.
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King M: Medical Care in Developing Countries . New York, Oxford University Press, 1966;.
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Jelliffe DB, Jelliffe EFP: Human Milk in the Modern World . New York, Oxford University Press, 1978;.
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King M, King F, Martodipoero S: Primary Child Care . New York, Oxford University Press, 1978;.
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Ebrahim GJ: Child Care in the Tropics . New York, Macmillan Publishing Co Inc, 1979;.
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Werner D: Where There is No Doctor . New York, Macmillan Publishing Co Inc, 1979;.

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