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Article History

Received: 8 April 2024

Accepted: 10 March 2025

First Online: 19 March 2025

Declarations

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: Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar (reference number: IPH/2505/2023). Informed consent to participate was waived by the Institutional Review Board of the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar (Reference Number: IPH/2505/2023), as the study utilized secondary data on under-five children’s diarrhea records from the zonal health department. All methods were carried out following the Helsinki Declarations and guidelines and regulations of the University of Gondar research and ethics review committee. A retrospective study was conducted by taking diarrhea reports from children under-5 years of age from the Central Gondar Zone Health Department. Central Gondar Zone Health Department were contacted and permission was obtained. There were no individual participant identifiers such as name to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of the participants in the study. All the collected records were kept confidential.

: This manuscript does not contain any personal data.

: The authors declare no competing interests.