Read more about this day to call attention to global sanitation issues.
Be informed about the lack of sanitation in the world. The facts are staggering:
| 2.6 billion people worldwide are without access to proper sanitation1, which risks their health, strips their dignity, and kills 1.8 million people, mostly children, a year2. |
| Diarrheal diseases kill five times as many children in the developing world as HIV/AIDS.2 That's 5,000 children DYING EVERY SINGLE DAY. |
| Not only that, but the disease kills more children than either malaria or AIDS, stunts growth, and forces millions - adults and children alike - to spend weeks at a time off work or school, which hits both a country's economy and its citizens' chances of a better future.3 The majority of the illness in the world is caused by fecal matter.4 |
| Lack of sanitation is the world's biggest cause of infection.4 |
| One gram of feces can contain 10 million viruses, one million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 parasite eggs.5 |
| Safe disposal of children's feces leads to a reduction of nearly 40% in childhood diarrhea.5 |
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