Diarrheal diseases caused by drinking contaminated water kill 1.5 million children under 5 each year.

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OneWorld Health is currently developing medicines for diarrheal diseases, malaria, visceral leishmaniasis and soil-transmitted helminthes (intestinal worms).

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The impact on health is huge, 2 million people die every year from diarrheal diseases, and most of them are children under the age of 5.

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Infectious diseases still take a grave toll in poor countries, especially childhood killers such as malaria, pneumonia and diarrheal diseases that are rarely a threat in rich countries.

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Both the World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) expressed concern about reports of diarrheal diseases among children in southern Iraq being on the rise due to their drinking contaminated water.

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About 2.5 billion people don't have access to modern toilets, and this lack of access encourages the spread of diarrheal diseases, which are blamed for the deaths of 1.5 million children each year, according to the World Health Organization.

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Diarrheal diseases, all the time.

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