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Every year, 800, 000 small children die from malaria, a disease once nearly eradicated.
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Nearly 5, 000 children die each day from dysentery, a disease that is directly related to unsafe drinking water.
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And we know we're not finished when 40, 000 women a year still die from this disease.
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Claire Holdcroft is an outreach worker for the Jennifer Trust, which works with families affected by spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) - a neuromuscular disease from which babies can die within the first days of life.
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Cancer specialists know that because prostate cancer is usually a slow growing disease, many men are likely to die from other causes before they would die from prostate cancer.
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The vast majority die at a young age, and most are never rescued from the specter of degenerative disease.
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In the UK, 114, 000 people a year die from heart attacks, and 30, 000 of these are from heart disease.
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In countries such as Tanzania, where nearly 4, 500 women die annually from the disease, the problem is exacerbated by an acute shortage of medical experts and a lack of quality screening services, especially in rural areas.
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