Ask most people to name the two biggest causes of death among children and they will most likely say malaria and HIV. In fact, it is pneumonia and diarrhea—the “forgotten killers”—that are responsible for the highest death toll, claiming more than two million of the most vulnerable lives every year. Together, these two diseases account for 29 percent of all deaths of children under five years old. Yet as shocking as these statistics are, what is perhaps even more surprising is just how preventable pneumonia and diarrhea are—so much so that it would be quite feasible to introduce measures that by 2025 would reduce their death toll to almost zero.
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