Four ways the IRC is saving children's lives

In the developing world, medicines and supplements that can save a child from preventable diseases are frustratingly unavailable.

The IRC is addressing this urgent need and helping to ensure that the most common and treatable childhood ailments don’t become a death sentence.

Diarrhea is responsible for more deaths than AIDS, malaria and measles combined.

IRC-trained community health workers save countless lives by administering zinc tablets and an oral rehydration mixture — the most effective treatments to save lives.

In countries where the IRC is at work, malaria is the most serious threat to a child’s life because the drugs best able to prevent death are in desperately short supply.

In Africa, malaria claims a life every 45 seconds.

The IRC has relationships with trusted partners so that we can access and deliver quantities necessary to save lives.

In some of the conflict and crisis zones where the IRC works, quality eye care is non-existent.

In response, the IRC trains community health workers to practice primary eye care to identify and treat the most common causes of blindness and vision loss.

Common childhood diseases that are deadly and destructive can be conquered with treatments that are low in cost, yet profoundly difficult to obtain in the countries where children need them most.