These children need urgent care and attention for their neighborhoods, "said Christian
Balslev - Olsen, UNICEF representative in Somalia," UNICEF is very concerned because of the growing numbers with the continuing civil war and humanitarian assistance up limited to these areas, and lack of food security and economic recession. "
The reason for malnutrition in the region to food insecurity in the household in addition to the bad sanitation, poor infant-care practices.
The organization said that "oral rehydration with zinc and the risk of death becomes almost non-existent," pointing out that the cost of treatment per child of not more than 30 U.S. cents, "a quarter of euros." The organization pointed out that one of the main obstacles faced by patients in the treatment of children lies in the delivery of such treatments to them.
Despite the huge number of people killed who, but loss of this disease that the World Health Organization has expressed its regret that the medical research on children''s diarrhea "retreat since the eighties." The organization said the money allocated to research on this disease, "are a clear decline in its budget, compared with those allocated to research on diseases cause mortality compared with a few" children with diarrhea.
The World Health Organization estimated the number of children who have been rescued thanks to oral rehydration therapy, which was used since the start of 25 years, nearly 50 million children. World Health Organization considered that the decline of child mortality by more than a quarter since 1990 is still not sufficient, especially in countries developing countries.
World Health Organization considered that the decline of child mortality by more than a quarter since 1990 is still not sufficient, especially in developing countries. The annual statistics in the report that the number of deaths of children under the age of five at 9 million for the year 2007, and registered a decline by 28% in these deaths, compared with the year 1990 the number of deaths which Kddr b 12.5 million.
However, these figures exceed those set for the Millennium Development Goals, which provides for reducing the number of deaths of children under five by two thirds by the year 2015.
A new report that it is possible to save the lives of millions of children, who are now dying at a young age, easily and at low cost.
According to the report entitled "Status of newborn children," released recently by the Assembly entitled "Women and children first" Charity, in conjunction with the Institute of child health in Britain, the reason for the death of children due to infections and complications that occur during childbirth, and also because premature birth, congenital malformations that result in serious death.
A study of rural women''s education and training on ways of childbirth and how health care to children after birth, with the result that the number of deaths of children in that region has declined by more than fifty percent.
Kmaozart another experiment in the region of Maharashtra in India, the poor, the number of deaths of children in the region has declined by more than sixty percent in three years, and the duration of the experiment, which was to monitor the training of women and children through health care. As well as ensure that all means of assistance pregnant women to give birth and to prevent infections after birth and finally, education and training of families on ways to deal with the health of newborns and children to protect them from diseases and infections.