Around the world Quote by Melinda Gates

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

— Melinda Gates

Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS,…

— Rose George

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.

— Chelsea Clinton

The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before…

— Bill Gates

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…

— Peter Singer

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

— Claire Danes

You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things…

— Rose George

America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging…

— Sissela Bok

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

— Nicholas D. Kristof

The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war.

— Beverly Sills

“Two thousand children under the age of five die every day from diseases that could have been prevented with clean water and proper sanitation,”

— Arianna Huffington

American children are the heaviest worldwide, and they are getting heavier at a faster rate than other children around the globe. This spread of…

— Joel Fuhrman