Last June 8, 2012, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) released a report titled, “Pneumonia and diarrhea: tackling the deadliest diseases for the world’s poorest children” which presented interventions that could overcome the battle against two leading killers of the world’s youngest children – pneumonia and diarrhea.

Pneumonia and diarrhea is responsible for 29 percent of deaths among children under five worldwide or more than 2 million deaths a year. The report said that nearly 90 percent of the children who die from the two diseases live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.