A comprehensive campaign against the major diseases (STD AIDS, leprosy, tuberculosis, malaria, diarrhoea, malnutrition).

They die from diseases like measles, diarrhea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

It notes that the main causes of child mortality are related to malaria, diarrhoeal diseases, acute respiratory diseases and vaccine preventable diseases.

Most Parties predicted an increase in the incidence of water and vector borne diseases such as malaria, dengue and diarrhoea.

Even when children are in school, they are often not meeting their learning potential due to mental stunting caused by helminth infections and diarrhoea.

The most common presenting symptoms are rapid weight loss, tachycardia (rapid heart rate), vomiting, diarrhea, increased consumption of fluids (polydipsia) and food, and increased urine production (polyuria).

Over 90 percent of malaria and diarrhea deaths are borne by children aged 5 years or younger, mostly in developing countries.

Yet, for pneumonia and diarrhea, we have every reason to believe that we can succeed, because we already know what works.

In fact, it is pneumonia and diarrhea the forgotten killers that are responsible for the highest death toll, claiming more than two million of the most vulnerable lives every year.

He regrets, however, that infant and under five mortality rates remain high, largely as a result of preventable or treatable causes, such as acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis.

He presented a case study from Ghana that linked air temperature and humidity projections with distribution of diseases by showing that periods of high meningitis, diarrhoea and malaria cases coincide with periods of high air temperature.

Unfortunately, child survival programs in the developing world have focused primarily on pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, and vaccine preventable causes of deaths after the first month of life, while safe motherhood programs have focused primarily on the mother.

Yet as shocking as these statistics are, what is perhaps even more surprising is just how preventable pneumonia and diarrhea are so much so that it would be quite feasible to introduce measures that by 2025 would reduce their death toll to almost zero.

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty related causes, nearly ten million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases like measles, diarrhea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

PRINCETON On which problems should we focus research in medicine and the biological sciences? There is a strong argument for tackling the diseases that kill the most people diseases like malaria, measles, and diarrhea, which kill millions in developing countries, but very few in the developed world.