girls. Progress in child health is unlikely to be sustained if one third of the developing world's children remain without access to clean drinking water and half of them without adequate sanitary facilities. 12. Based on the experience of the past decade, including the many innovations in simple, low-cost techniques and technologies to provide clean water and safe sanitary facilities in rural areas and urban shanty towns, it is now desirable as well as feasible, through concerted national action and international co-operation, to aim at providing all the world's children with universal access to safe drinking water and sanitary means of excreta disposal by the year 2000. An important related benefit of universal access to water and sanitation combined with health education will be the control of many water-borne diseases, among them elimination of guinea-worm disease (dracunculiasis), which currently afflicts sorne 10 million children in parts of Africa and Asia. 1 ••• E/ICEF/1990/L.20 English Page 10 C. Food and nutrition 13. Hunger and malnutrition in their different forms contribute to about half of the deaths of young children. More than 20 million children suffer from severe malnutrition, 150 million are underweight and 350 million women suffer from nutritional anaemia. Improved nutrition requires (a) adequate household food security, (b) healthy environment and control of infections and (c) adequate maternal and child care. With the right policies, appropriate institutional arrangements and political priority, the world is now in a position to feed all the world's children and to overcome the worst forms of malnutrition, i.e. drastically to reduce diseases that contribute to malnutrition, to ha1ve protein-energy malnutrition, virtually to eliminate vitamin A deficiency and iodine deficiency disorders and to reduce nutritional anaemia significantly. 14. For the young child and the pregnant woman, provision of adequate food during pregnancy and lactation; promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding and 
**Analysis**
The text primarily focuses on the importance of providing access to clean drinking water, sanitary facilities, and adequate nutrition for children worldwide. It highlights the connection between these basic necessities and the control of diseases, particularly water-borne diseases. The text also emphasizes the need for policies and institutional arrangements to ensure the availability of these necessities. This suggests that the primary focus is on health and well-being, with a secondary consideration of economic development and international cooperation.

**Category**
Health, Humanitarian aid and relief