Showing posts with label World's Child Deaths; Angola; Congo DR; Ethiopia; Nigeria; Tanzania; Central African Republic; Chad; Mali; Sierra Leone; Somalia; India; The Lancet; UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Show all posts
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Friday, November 11, 2016

Bulk Of World's Child Deaths In Just 10 Countries: Study

Nurses look after premature babies at the post-natal Intensive Care Unit in Shivpuri, central Madhya Pradesh in India, one of 10 countries which nearly 60 percent of all worldwide deaths of children under five occur (AFP Photo/Roberto Schmidt)
Sixty percent of the 5.9 million children under five who died last year were in just 10 countries in Africa and Asia, an evaluation of global infant health revealed Friday.