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Global: Six Million Children "Need Not Die Every Year"
May 6, 2008
More than six million children could be saved from death every year if funding were increased to improve community-level health services in the developing world, where 99 percent of child deaths occur, according to a report by Save the Children-USA.
"One in every six children in sub-Saharan Africa still dies before age five," William First, the chairman of Save the Children's "Survive to 5 Campaign", stated in his forward to the report published on May 6. "In some countries, parents don't name a child during the first six weeks of life because they fear the baby will not survive even its earliest days."
Save the Children published the report, State of the World's Mothers, to mark Mother's Day on May 11. It ranks 55 developing countries on their effectiveness in reaching the poorest children with life-saving measures.
For full article, visit:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/ffb0e4c7367dad22538867e1c043ef06.htm
category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 8 May 2008
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