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Tuesday, April 7

Pneumonia kills 2 million children a year!

Pneumonia and other forms of acute respiratory infection (ARI) kill more than 2 million children alone each year in poor countries.

2 Million children!!! what!!!!???

Pneumonia is treated with a common antibotic!

UN throws spotlight on pneumonia, world’s biggest killer of children http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=26540&Cr=health&Cr1


Diseases snuff out 2 million Indian kids every year
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1245856

diseases of poverty kill approximately 14 million people annually
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_poverty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty#Health

2 comments:

  1. Did nomes tell you about the Shanelle Hall chick at colour?
    She works with Unicef and was meant to come to colour but had to go to africa for the food crisis so they recorded some of what she had to say to play.
    She was talking about the "Millenium Development Goals", I checked my notes but didn't get all 8 written down but I'm pretty sure that halving the mortality rate of preventable childhood diseases was one of them.
    Something you might be interested in looking up :)

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