Sunday, 15 November 2009

Children sanitation alert

source: bbc.co.uk

Millions of children's lives are being put at risk each year because aid agencies and governments make wrong choices about health care priorities.

This is the conclusion of a new report from the charity WaterAid.

It says that diarrhoea caused by poor sanitation is killing many more children than HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

The report says the global spending on HIV/Aids hugely outweighs the amounts spent on providing better sanitation.

Read full article HERE

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I wasn't able to open the link to read the article, so I looked it up:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8045073.stm