Quantifying the Cost of Diarrhea in the Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) Surveillance Study.

Background: Comparative costs of public health interventions provide valuable data for decision making. However, the availability of comprehensive and context-specific costs is often limited. The Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) surveillance study-a facility-based diarrhea surveillance study across 7 countries-aims to generate evidence on health system and household costs associated with medically attended diarrhea in children.

[An example of diphallia in children].

Diphallus is a rare malformation with an estimated frequency of one case per five million births. The authors report a case of incomplete diphallus associated with glanular hypospadias in a 2-month-old. There are various more or less severe anatomical and clinical forms of this urogenital abnormality.