IMPORTANT FACTS

• Of the 6.6 million under-five deaths in 2012, most were from preventable causes such as pneumonia, diarrhoea or malaria; around 44% of deaths in children under 5 occurred during the neonatal period.
• Under 5 mortality rate of India is at 56.
• Malaria killed more than 1,200 children under 5 years of age every day in 2012. Globally, malaria was responsible for more than 450,000 child deaths in 2012. Of these, 97% were in sub-Saharan Africa.Childhood malaria mortality is strongly concentrated in the poorest countries in sub Saharan Africa.
• How many childrens die globally every day due to prevantable diseases -- 2000
• AIDS was first identified on --- 1983.
• UNAIDS Executive Director --- Michel Sidibé, 
• How many identified HIV affected till now --- 60 million
•  783 million people, or 11 per cent of the global population, remain without access to an improved source of drinking water according to millennium development goal.
• Some 10 per cent of the world’s population, approximately 650 million people, live with a disability.