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Water
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1. What is the problem?
Nearly 11 million young children die each year, mostly from preventable
illnesses such as diarrhoea and malaria. They could be saved by better
nutrition, care and medical treatment. That’s why one of the
Millennium Development Goals is to reduce the mortality rate of under-fives
by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.
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2. What is the size of the problem?
In some poor countries, one child in 11 dies before its fifth birthday - that’s
more than 10 times the rate of children dying every year in wealthy countries
like the UK.
3. How can it be solved?
To help tackle the problem, we’re working with a number of partners to
boost access to healthcare. For example, in Tanzania we’re supporting
a US$12 million insecticide treated net programme, which should stop 40,000
children a year dying from malaria.
4. What we can do?
Progress is slowest Sub-Saharan Africa, where death rates have actually
gone up in some countries between 1990 and 2000. Armed conflicts, growing
populations, a lack of investment in health services and the spread of
HIV /AIDS are all contributing to this situation, with a number of countries
now experiencing more than 200 deaths in children under five per 1,000
live births.
Clean water is the most fundamental necessity for life. Similarly, everyone
needs basic sanitation. These things are essential to health and human
dignity, and they are your right under the Convention on the Rights of
the Child.
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Names of students who made this were these people and there name are
here: Farhad & Nasim& Mahad.
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Questions:
1. What do they eat?
2. What do they travel with?
3. Why can’t they drink from there taps?o
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http://www.dfid.gov.uk/mdg/childmortality.asp#top
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