World Health Day.

I just discovered via facebook that today is World Health Day and World Vision has provided me with a list of fast facts.

• Malnutrition contributes to more than half of all child deaths. (Source: World Health Organization)
• Every year, 8.1 million children die of poor health. That is …
22,191 per day,
924 per hour,
15 per minute,
1 child dies every 4 seconds.
• 195 million children are stunted due to hunger (1 in 3 children in developing countries).(Source: UNICEF, “Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition,” November 2009)
• In the time it takes you to brush your teeth in the morning (average of 45 seconds), another child dies of malaria in Africa.(Source: World Health Organization)
• Each year, 272 million school days are lost for children due to diarrhea. (Source: UNICEF)
• 193 million children are malnourished with impaired cognitive growth by the time they reach primary school age. That’s more than three times the state population of California. (Source: UNESCO, “Education: roads closed,” 2008)
• An estimated one in three school-aged children in the developing world are infested with intestinal worms. (Source: UNICEF)
• 14.8 million iPads have been sold to date. That’s also the number of children who die of AIDS each year in sub-Saharan Africa. (Fact source: UNAIDS, 2010 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic)