Fighting Pediatic Disease Worldwide

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Children often only receive one meal of rice and beans at school and nothing at home!

Children often only receive one meal of rice and beans at school and nothing at home!

Few people realize that, although important, the major illnesses facing children in the developing world are not HIV or malaria, but common household diseases such as diarrhea, pneumonia, and malnutrition. It is these common childhood illnesses that Fight For The Children was established to fight.

To learn more, click the links below:

Diarrhea in the developing world

Pneumonia and vaccine efficacy

HIV around the world

Malaria in the tropics

Burkitt's Lymphoma

Diseases by country

Centers for Disease Control

World Health Organization

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Clinton Foundation