The “unfinished business” of lowering child mortality

by IRIN News

In 1990, an estimated 12 million children around the world died under age five; by 2011, that figure had dropped to 6.9 million. The message, from a new report by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), is that with greater commitment to child survival from governments and their partners, these figures can go lower still.

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