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doi:10.1136/bmj.b2017

Published 19 May 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2017
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b2017

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Poor sanitation: Diarrhoea is the second biggest killer of childrenworldwide, but critical interventions to prevent these deathsattract "a dismal amount of international aid," according toFatal Neglect, a report by the charity WaterAid. In 2004 diarrhoeakilled 1.8 million children; in 2004-2006 only $1.5 bn (£1bn; ${euro}$ 1.1bn) was spent globally on improved sanitation, which is vitalin the fight to protect children from diarrhoea (www.wateraid.org).

Dutch diabetes on the rise: The National Institute for PublicHealth in the Netherlands predicts an 80% increase in diabetesby 2025. In theory half of the cases, those caused by inactivityand weight problems, are avoidable and could be prevented byhealth promotion measures (see report 260322004 at www.rivm.nl).

Wedding suit: Andrew Speaker, the US lawyer who created an internationalhealth scare when he flew to and from Greece for his weddingalthough he had drug resistant tuberculosis, . . . [Full text of this article]

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