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January 5, 2005 Child Health Foundation Helping Survivors Dear Dr. Miller and Mr. Peterson; I appreciate your informative piece "Hopkins Tsunami Response" of January 3, 2005. It provides a great deal of very helpful information and guidance for everyone in the Hopkins "family". There is another charity, the Child Health Foundation (CHF), a registered 501(c)3 tax exempt entity, which was founded by Hopkins faculty together with others that specifically focuses on low cost ways to save lives especially those of children. Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) has been a principal way to do this, which CHF has been propagating through its programs. At present, two Johns Hopkins faculty are trustees of CHF (Drs. R.B. Sack and W.B. Greenough, III). Dr. Maureen Black who is a Professor at the University of Maryland and the wife of Dr. Robert Black, Chief of the Department of International Health, is also a trustee. In view of the strong likelihood of a cholera epidemic in wake of the Tsunami, the Child Health Foundation is raising funds to ship a rice-based oral rehydration solution (Ceralyte) to the high-risk areas. The company that makes Ceralyte has offered it at cost (about 30 cents/liter) and has a substantial amount now available for immediate shipment. Although the standard glucose-based ORT is highly effective, the rice-based product both shortens the illness and reduces the amount of fluid needed to save lives, thus reducing logistical burdens. Since many of us at Johns Hopkins have contributed to the discovery and global application of ORT and are currently working with the International Centre of Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) and CHF, we would encourage support to CHF to quickly move life-saving, simple and low cost treatment of cholera and related diarrheal diseases to the areas now lacking clean water and shelter and are vulnerable to cholera. Interested persons can be referred to the CHF and Cera Products websites: http://www.ceraproductsinc.com or http://www.childhealthfoundation.org William B. Greenough, III, M.D.
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