A child dies every four seconds from HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty often before their fifth birthday. 15 children die every minute. Over 22,000 children die worldwide every single day. About 8 million children die every year. (Source: UNICEF)
More than one billion people do not have access to clean drinking water and water for domestic purposes. Water problems are worse especially in Africa. (source: World vision)
About 4 million newborns die worldwide during their first month of life. About 2.5 million children die every year because they are not immunized. (sources:World Health Organization)
More than 50 percent of Africans suffer from water-related diseases such as cholera, infant diarrhea, dysentery, river blindness, etc. (source: World Health Org.)
More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day, 300 million are children. Of these 300 million children, only eight percent are victims of famine or other emergency situations. (UNAIDS, UNICEF)
More than 1 billion children do not have access to one or more of the basic necessities of life and 90 percent of these children suffer from long-term malnourishment and micro-nutrient deficiencies.
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