ICS greatly improve women's health (World Health Organization, WHO)

1. ICS greatly improve women's health (World Health Organization, WHO) Ms. Haj Aisha Kano State, Nigeria Switched all her cooking from a three-stone fire to ICS, cooks for 35 people everyday Source: CQC • Efficient cook stoves dramatically reduce incidence of death and disease associated with indoor air pollution by achieving combustion of most of the elements of smoke that cause serious health problems • Cooking over open fire, equivalent to two packs of unfiltered cigarettes per day, causing two million deaths annually • Since women do the majority of cooking and breathing of smoke, they are disproportionately affected by related health issues • Compromised respiratory function increases vulnerability to other diseases

2. Health impact on children (World Health Organization, WHO) The Killer in the Kitchen Typical 24-hour mean levels of small particles (PM10*) in micrograms per cubic metre (μg/m3), early 2000s *PM10: Particulate matter pollution of liquid and solid particles floating in the air that are small enough to be inhaled into the deepest parts of the lung. 195,000 fire-related burn deaths each year, over 95% in developing countries. Exposure to indoor cooking smoke doubles a child’s risk of contracting pneumonia Pneumonia is the #1 killer of children under the age of 5 (ahead of AIDS, malaria, malnutrition and water-borne diseases).