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Prioritizing Low-Cost, Simple Health Measures would Save 2.5 M Children Yearly
Nov. 16, 2009
Almost a third of the children under age five who die each year could be saved if governments rebalance health spending to ensure low-cost, simple interventions such as safe water and hygiene, bed nets and basic maternal and newborn care, leading aid agency World Vision said. Currently, 8.8 million children a year die before age five, most of preventable causes.
A new report by the Christian humanitarian agency calls for scaling up simple preventive health measures for mothers and children, particularly at the community level. This must be a priority to make rapid progress against the top child killers of pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria, the international analysis shows. Citing interventions that can cost pennies, the study concludes that more strategic use of funding and resources would keep millions of children from dying before they reach their fifth birthdays.
"Our world is in the grip of a chronic humanitarian crisis with more than 24,000 children dying each day," said World Vision International's President Kevin Jenkins. "Yet we know that even in the poorest countries, most child deaths are not inevitable."
© 2009 EurekAlert
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/wv-pls111209.php
category: Member Organization News : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 18 November 2009
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