FROM Kuala Lumpur to New York, global leaders are gathering this month to discuss the future of health and development. Critical to achieving the health goals launched at the UN General Assembly will be the paediatric issues discussed here in Malaysia this week, because preventable disease in children is still a serious public health – and economic – problem in much of the world.
Take diarrhoea, for example. Diarrhoea is a leading cause of child illness and death, and rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhoea.