An estimated 192 million preschool children in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from protein or vitamin deficiencies. Without active changes to this pattern, World Vision predicts that twice as many people will be undernourished by 2010. Malnutrition manifests itself in a number of life-threatening ways. Although preventable, many children sicken from protein-energy malnutrition, vitamin A deficiency, low birth weight, anemia, iodine deficiency, diarrhea, and a horde of infectious childhood diseases. Beyond its most immediate and obvious health damage, malnutrition also disrupts children's quality of life by impeding their activity, growth, learning capacity, and work performance.
Malnutrition threatens a country's future.
Half of Africa' population about 300 million live without access to basic health care or a safe water source. Eurodad Unpotable Water Water-born infections result from unsafe water sources and inadequate sanitation. Over half of sub-Saharan Africa's population suffers from these problems as they display themselves in sicknesses like diarrhea, giardia, and gracunculiasis which comes from the guinea worm. Although the more industrialized countries seem to be curbing their AIDS problems, sub-Saharan African countries face an exponential growth and spread of the virus and youth are hit the hardest. In a number of sub-Saharan countries, one in four people is infected with the virus.