That's pitiful, and it's preventable.

And yet, this is completely preventable.

It's not only preventable it's actually reversible.

But three of those crimes are preventable.

That is, every day, 25,000 children die of entirely preventable causes.

In this country, as many as 24,000 Canadians die of preventable medical errors.

Every year a million and a half people die of a completely preventable disease.

Over 13 percent of the deaths were from respiratory illnesses again, all preventable and treatable.

UNlCEF reports that in 2011, 6.9 million children under five died from preventable, poverty related diseases.

I want to talk about the other pandemic, which is cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension all of which are completely preventable for at

I don't know what's worse than allowing children on this planet to die of vaccine preventable diseases diseases for which the vaccine costs a dollar.

Six and a half thousand Africans dying every single day from AlDS a preventable, treatable disease for lack of drugs we can get in any pharmacy.

The population isn't out of proportion to its area, but Africa leads the world in deaths from often preventable causes malnutrition, simple infections and birth complications.

Over 15 percent of the deaths among adults and children occurred because of intestinal parasites and diarrhea from dirty water and inadequate sanitation all entirely preventable and treatable.

Many of these deaths were completely preventable, and this what I want to think of as the disconcerting thing, what I want to call the last mile problem.

Heart and blood vessel diseases still kill more people not only in this country, but also worldwide than everything else combined, and yet it's completely preventable for almost everybody.

Still, 7.6 million children die every year of preventable, treatable diseases, and 178 million kids are malnourished to the point of stunting, a horrible term which means physical and cognitive lifelong impairment.

I truly believe that stem cell research is going to allow our children to look at Alzheimer's and diabetes and other major diseases the way we view polio today, which is as a preventable disease.

You could take the money you're spending on those unnecessary things and give it to this organization, the Against Malaria Foundation, which would take the money you had given and use it to buy nets like this one to protect children like this one, and we know reliably that if we provide nets, they're used, and they reduce the number of children dying from malaria, just one of the many preventable diseases that are responsible for some of those 19,000 children dying every day.