TASC’s main focus is reducing the number of preventable child deaths (aged 1-17) in Asia. Rather than focus on communicable and non-communicable diseases which are already a primary focus of many NGOs, TASC has concentrated on preventable deaths and morbidity resulting from injury. The first phase of TASC’s development was primarily an information generating exercise. Recognising that gaps in the way data is collected on child death and injury exist in many Asian countries, TASC undertook a series of large scale community surveys in a bid to define the extent and scope of the problem.