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Africa:
New Data Shows Global Reduction in Child Mortality
Save the Children US, 16 September 2013
The United Nations has just published its annual statistics on child mortality around the world. The data reveals that the number of children dying every year has halved in a… Read more »
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Africa:
Fighting Child Mortality Around the World
AlertNet, 13 September 2013
Eastern and southern Africa are reducing child mortality faster than any other regions in the world, the United Nations children's fund (Unicef) said in a report on Friday, but… Read more »
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South Africa:
Fewer Infant Deaths in a Rural Hospital
UNIRIN, 12 September 2013
Mothers and children in South Africa are still dying in alarming numbers, and the country is among only a few worldwide where child deaths are rising. But a rural hospital in the… Read more »
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Ethiopia:
Govt Makes Great Stride in Reducing Child Mortality
VOA, 13 September 2013
The United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, says Ethiopia has achieved one of the Millennium Development Goals of reducing child mortality by more than two-thirds. Read more »
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Ghana:
Achieving MDGs in Ghana, Traditional Birth Attendants to Fade Out?
Ghanaian Chronicle, 13 September 2013
It is remarkable that great strides are being achieved toward meeting MDGs 4 and 5. Ghana has been ranked 41st on world maternal mortality rate index, according to CIA World Fact… Read more »
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Africa:
UN - Global Child Deaths Down By Almost Half Since 1990
World Bank, 13 September 2013
In 2012, approximately 6.6 million children worldwide - 18,000 children per day - died before reaching their fifth birthday, according to a new report released today by UNICEF, the… Read more »
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Africa:
UN - Child Mortality Rate Reduced By Half
VOA, 13 September 2013
A new report says the number of global deaths among children under age five is almost half what it was 22 years ago. A joint report by the United Nations Children's Fund, the World… Read more »
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Ethiopia:
UNICEF - Ethiopia Set to Achieve MDG Four
ERTA, 14 September 2013
Ethiopia's far-reaching health workers programme has helped reduce child mortality across the country, UNICEF has said. Read more »
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South Sudan:
U.S. $5 Million Earmarked for Fighting Tuberculosis and Child Mortality Rate
GoSS, 6 August 2013
The Korean Foundation for International Health Care (KFIHC) has earmarked five million (USD$5million), United States Dollars an equivalent of SSP20,000,000 for the fight against… Read more »
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Africa:
World Saved Some 90 Million Children but Likely to Miss Global Target, UN Agency Reports
UN News, 13 September 2013
Global and national efforts to end preventable deaths of children under-five years of age saved some 90 million lives in the past two decades, but at the current rate, a universal… Read more »
