Providing life-saving treatments for young children
Clear Solutions envisions a world in which no child dies a preventable death from diarrhoeal disease
Our latest news
Feb 2025: Final month of "Phase 3" ORS+zinc operations, with GPS tracking of ward-wide distributions.
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November 2024: Growing the team and building our replicable model for scale as we started "Phase 3" distributions.
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Q2-3 2024: "Phase 2" ORS+zinc distributions targeting 20,000 children. This first scale-up round included quasi-experimental evaluation, following strong results in our Kano Pilot.​​
Over 400,000
Over 400,000 children die of diarrheal disease every year.
This makes diarrhea 1 of the 3 largest killers of children under 5-years-old globally.
Clear Solutions improves access to and awareness of a simple treatment that could prevent >90% of those deaths.
Less than $1
This effective treatment costs less than 1 dollar.
THE TREATMENT: ORS and Zinc
Oral rehydration solution (ORS)
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Mixture of Water, Sugar, and Salts
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Helps prevent dehydration, the primary cause of children’s deaths due to diarrhoea
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Prevents up to 93% of diarrhoea deaths
Zinc tablets
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Restore function of the intestines, boosts the immune system
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Reduces the duration of the diarrheal episode and helps prevent future episodes for 2-3 months.
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OUR APPROACH
ORS & Zinc have saved millions of lives in recent decades. However, they are tragically under-used by some of the communities most in need worldwide.
