Today I found an article from the website global issues and it really opened up my eyes to a subject that I never really thought of or was well educated on. This article was stating that over 26,500 children died around the world today. This is equivalent to 1 child dying every 3 seconds, 18 children dying every minute, a 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring every week, an Iraq-scale death toll every 15–36 days, almost 10 million children dying every year, Some 60 million children dying between 2000 and 2006. The main causes of all these children dying is hunger, poverty, diseases that are preventable and other causes. This topic is not very big in the media, however it is usually only brought up during concerts or global meetings. There are about six countries that account for about 50 percent of the worldwide deaths. Some more key points to this issue is the importance of undernutrition as a very big cause of child deaths associated with infectious diseases, the effects of multiple concurrent illnesses, and recognition that pneumonia and diarrhoea remain the diseases that are most often associated with child deaths. A better understanding of child health epidemiology could contribute to more effective approaches to saving children's lives.
This is a chart about child deaths in 2006 and most of the child deaths in 2006 just occurred in two regions.
This article definitely reminds me of the book Nectar in a Sieve when Rukmani was losing her children due to starvation. She could hardly afford food and she lost two sons because of that. It was preventable if people would have given them money or if the community would have worked together to help people in need but it seemed as if most people were just about helping them selves wether or not they had money.
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