LONDON (Reuters) - Diarrhoea causes one in five child deaths across the world but getting important vaccines to Africa and Asia could help save many lives, two U.N. agencies said on Wednesday.
Some 1.5 million children die each year from diarrhoea, -- more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined -- yet only 39 percent of children with diarrhoea in developing countries get the right treatment, the World Health Organisation and the United Nations children's fund UNICEF said in a report.
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