Hilton Humanitarian Prize Awarded to PATH

One of PATH’s current initiatives is stopping diarrheal disease, which kills an estimated 5,000 young children every day. PATH is taking a multipronged approach that includes developing vaccines against the most common cause of severe diarrhea, increasing communities’ access to safe water, and working with partners to develop a disposable “lab on a card” diagnostic device as an easy-to-use and low-cost tool for detecting diarrhea-causing pathogens. Typical of its private-sector approach, PATH is evaluating more than 150 commercial water-purifying technologies such as filters and chemical treatments that could be sold for household use to provide safe water in villages and towns.