You can learn about the essentials of a healthy lifestyle for your child and yourself, and much more from the Facts for Life website.
Since it was first published in 1989, Facts for Life has become one of the world's most popular books, with more than 15 million copies in use in 215 languages in 200 countries. The book is co-published by UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNDP, UNAIDS, WFP and the World Bank.
Facts for Life – now on the internet - presents, in a very simple and reader-friendly language, essential and reliable information about practical, effective and low-cost ways to protect children's lives. The website contains information including Safe Motherhood, Early Learning to Malaria and Injury Prevention.
Facts for Life aims to provide parents and other caregivers with the information they need to improve children's lives. The messages contained in Facts for Life are based on the scientific findings by medical experts around the world. It also presents statistics and indicators of human suffering, for e.g. the dismal fact that every year nearly 11 million children die from preventable causes before reaching their fifth birthday, many of them during the first year of life.
The bleak status of children further reinforces the purpose of the website. Facts for Life aims to make life-saving knowledge easily available to everyone. It presents the most important facts that people should know in order to prevent child deaths and diseases and to protect women during pregnancy and childbirth. Its messages are simple, and people in every corner of the world can act on them. Everyone can help communicate the Facts for Life messages – health workers, teachers, students, government officials, radio broadcasters, journalists, community workers, religious leaders and people from all walks of life.
