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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.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

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.

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

Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.

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.

In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.

Today, tomorrow and every day, we will see at least 2,000 young children killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. This is unacceptable, preventable, and we have to stop it. We have the vaccines for this disease: helmets, seatbelts, speed enforcement, safe road design. We just need to use them.

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.