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Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

I find the fact that more than 750,000 children still die every year around the world because of severe dehydration due to diarrhea unacceptable.

In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has declined significantly, from approximately 14 million in 1979 to slightly less than eight million in 2010.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.

It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.