Auta A, et al. - In children under 5 years of age in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), researchers estimated the prevalence and determined the factors correlated with the use of antibiotics in the management of non-bloody diarrhoea via conducting a meta-analysis of demographic and health survey data sets from 30 countries in SSA. In order to determine the factors associated with antibiotic use, Χ² tests were used. Data reported that the pooled prevalence of antibiotic use among non-bloody diarrhoea cases in children under the age of 5 was 23.1%. Investigators found that the use of antibiotics was linked to the source of care, place of residence, wealth index, maternal education and breastfeeding status in children with non-bloody diarrhoea in SSA. In children under 5 years of age in SSA, unacceptably high use of antibiotics to treat episodes of non-blood diarrhoea was found.