Nigeria, Somalia and Chad have the highest number of deaths from child pneumonia and diarrhoea in the world. This was contained in a report by the International Vaccine Access Centre (IVAC), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, U.S.A.
The report, which was released yesterday, shows that pneumonia and diarrhea were the cause of death for an estimated 1.5 million children or 25 per cent of under-five deaths globally.
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