Results
During the 3 years of the study, 8612 individuals presentedto health facilities with diarrhoea; 2076 were not includedbecause they refused to give consent or did not meet the criteria for diarrhoea or dysentery described above (Fig. 1).Of the remaining 6536 patients enrolled, 1622 (25%) were children aged < 5 years. The estimated incidence of treated diarrhoea in the population of children younger than 5 yearswas 95 cases/1000 children per year (95% CI = 88–103); the