Sentences with phrase «from diarrhoeal diseases»

1.35 million people in developing countries, most of them children, die every year from diarrhoeal diseases associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene and overcrowding.

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These three interventions could potentially ameliorate at least 20 % of annual global deaths from treatable disease (unfortunately we haven't yet figured out cardiovascular disease): Lower respiratory infection (list item # 3); Diarrhoeal disease (list item # 1); HIV / AIDS (list item # 2).

Breastfeeding and hence relactation are important for two reasons: Infant health: research shows that breastfed babies are less likely to suffer from acute respiratory infections, diarrhoeal diseases, and malnutrition.

Most of the reduction in mortality came from a decrease in deaths due to diarrhoeal diseases and measles.

The study was funded by the United States Agency for International Development by cooperative agreements with the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B), and the saving newborn lives program by Save the Children (US) with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In regions suffering from droughts, a greater incidence of diarrhoeal and other water - related diseases will mirror the deterioration in water quality (Patz, 2001; Environment Canada, 2004).

Yet already 1.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water, 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation, and 1.8 million people die every year from waterborne diarrhoeal diseases.