SET ME FREE: How to help children - NI 194 - How to help children: The FACTS Acute respiratory infections kill between two and three million children a year. But if parents recognize the danger signs they can get help. And knowledge about hygiene helps prevent diseases like tetanus. This can arise from unclean birth conditions and kills around 800,000 new-borns every year.3 Diarrhea kills around five million infants annually and is spread by germs entering the mouth - often from unwashed hands. Educating mothers can prevent such deaths. Children are less likely to die or suffer malnutrition if their mothers have completed primary education

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