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Measles HIV/AIDS
4% 3%
Diarrhoea Malaria
8% Injures
17% 3%
Under Other
Pneumonia Nutrition 10%
19% 53%

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than 2 million children each year. Pneumonia
accounts for almost one in five deaths of children
under five years of age, only one in five caregivers in
developing countries can recognize the danger
signs of pneumonia.

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swallowed, causes severe dehydration and kills an
estimated 1.9 million children under²
under²five years of
age each year. Unsafe drinking water, inadequate
availability of water for hygiene and lack of access
to sanitation together contribute to 88 per cent of
under²²five deaths from diarrhoea diseases.
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between 350 million and 500 million people each
year.
Children with malaria, a parasitic, mosquito²
mosquito²borne
disease, typically develop
fever, vomiting, headache and flu² flu²like symptoms
one to two weeks after being bitten. If not treated
promptly with effective medicines, malaria can kill.

 
Spreads through airborne droplets that

 
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circulate in infected coughs and sneezes.
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children, adolescents and young people.
Scale²²up for children is not advancing as rapidly as
Scale
it is for adults. The provision of antiretro virals to
pregnant women living with HIV can reduce the
transmission during pregnancy, childbirth and
breastfeeding to levels below 2 per cent, yet
coverage is still below 10 per cent.
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is an underlying cause in more than
half (53 per cent) of the 10.5 million child deaths
each year. When it does not kill, malnutrition can
leave children mentally and physically impaired.
Illness, insufficient breastfeeding and shortfalls of
food and micronutrients are the most immediate
causes of under²
under²nutrition.
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Tetanus
Úongenital 7%
Anomalies
8%
Diarrhoea
Birth 3%
Asphyxia
23% Other
7%

Severe
Infections Pre-term
Pre-
25% Birth
27%