Infant Mortality: The Human Costs of 2015 'Business-as-Usual' Scenario

Publisher:
United Nations Development Program
Publication Date:
9 June 2005
Tags:
Africa, Health and Medicine, Women and Gender, Children and Youth, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Environment

About five million African children will die in 2015 if donor countries continue with a business-as-usual approach to development in the region. But if the millennium development goal of cutting child mortality by two thirds until 2015 is met, the number of deaths would be cut to two million, according to a new statistical analysis by UNDP’s Human Development Report Office.

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