> And if you're counting bang for buck, $9 can possibly save 18 lives. Oral Rehydration Salts and zinc cost $0.5 per course, and could prevent about 3/4 of the

> And if you're counting bang for buck, $9 can possibly save 18 lives. Oral Rehydration Salts and zinc cost $0.5 per course, and could prevent about 3/4 of the 1.5 million child deaths from diarrhoea. If that's actually the case, you should contact Givewell, because that's a couple of orders of magnitude better than their current best charity ($1,600 per marginal malaria death prevented). Is this just something you read somewhere, or is there strong evidence that this treatment is actually orders of magnitude better than bednets? If it's the former, you probably shouldn't submit it without doing at least a bit of research (and if you don't want to, I can), whereas if it's the latter, I recommend you submit that charity for review here: http://www.givewell.org/submit-for-review http://www.givewell.org/submit-for-review