A new report released by UNICEF and WHO provides a seven-point plan for comprehensive diarrhea control. The plan and its objectives are discussed in a comment published Online First and in a future edition of The Lancet. The comment is the work of Dr Tessa Wardlaw, UNICEF, New York, USA, and Dr Elizabeth Mason, Director, Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, WHO, Switzerland, and colleagues. Presently, nearly one in every five child deaths (around 1.