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Why are GiveWell staff sampling ORS in our workplace?
Final week, GiveWell staff Erin, Katie, and Karthik sampled oral rehydration answer (ORS) in our Oakland workplace.
ORS is a kind of fluid substitute (just like Pedialyte) that saves lives by stopping diarrhea deaths. Diarrhea is a number one reason behind demise for kids beneath 5, however when ORS is given with zinc tablets, we estimate that diarrhea-related mortality is decreased by 60%.
We spend 50,000 hours annually researching cost-effective international well being and poverty alleviation interventions. A lot of this time is “desk work”—analyzing fashions in a spreadsheet, evaluating proof from research, or speaking with companions and subject-matter specialists over Zoom. However the nearer we are able to get to an intervention, the higher we are able to perceive it. Whether or not that’s sampling ORS in our workplace or taking web site go to journeys to witness a seasonal malaria chemoprevention marketing campaign, we’re dedicated to “heads-up work” that takes us past the spreadsheets to deepen our data of the applications we assist.
Examine our current grant to CHAI to distribute ORS in Nigeria right here.
July Quiz Query + Reply
Final month’s quiz query: What’s the approximate variety of conversations with donors our outreach workforce had in 2023?
We outline donor conversations as cellphone calls, conferences, or main donor occasions (emails should not included in our estimate). These conversations permit us to construct significant relationships with donors, perceive why they offer, and join them to the work their presents assist.
We estimate that our Outreach workforce had roughly 830 conversations with donors in 2023. Out of the 68 responses we obtained—with solutions starting from 7 to 10,000,000 conversations—the closest guess was 800! Congratulations to our winner, Victor Matta, who will obtain a GiveWell hat as a prize!
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Analysis and Associate Roundup
GiveWell publishes new analysis pages on a grant of as much as $4.8 million to the London College of Hygiene and Tropical Drugs to check the financial impression of distributing studying glasses, a $1.48 million grant to Malaria Consortium to design and pilot the “Be In A Web” program, and extra. New Incentives publishes a photograph weblog chronicling a day-in-the-life of a Nigerian mom dedicated to getting her youngsters vaccinated. On World Mosquito Day, Malaria Consortium printed a brand new weblog put up figuring out seven focus areas for malaria elimination.
