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A recent report showed that more than 200 million children under age 5 lack proper health care, resulting in almost 10 million deaths each year.The ninth annual State of the World's Mothers, conducted by US-based independent humanitarian organization Save the Children, shows the first-ever "Basic Health Care Report Card" of 55 developing countries.Together these countries account for nearly 60 percent of the world's under-5 population and 83 percent of all child deaths worldwide, the report...
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Two million babies each year die on the day they are born in developing countries due to a lack of simple measures such as providing tetanus immunization and skilled midwives, the Save the Children charity said on Tuesday. In a report on "The State of the World's Mothers 2006," the international charity said that of more than 10 million children under the age of five who die each year in the developing world, around one in five die within the first...
By Patricia Reaney LONDON (Reuters) - Seven countries in Asia, Africa and South America are on target to reduce child deaths by two-thirds in the next decade but $7 billion will be needed to meet the goal in other nations, health experts said on Tuesday. A new report that tracks child survival in 60 priority countries showed that Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal and the Philippines are making good progress in saving children who die each year from preventable causes....
By Patricia ReaneyLONDON (Reuters) - Families in Africa are struggling to pay medical bills for their sick children and do without basics such as food to make ends meet, a leading charity said on Monday.Save the Children UK, which conducted research in seven African nations, found that poor families were forced to sell livestock, mortgage crops and take children out of school to cover healthcare costs."Parents across sub-Saharan Africa are being forced to decide whether the rest of the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Low-tech, low-cost efforts to save newborns by providing clean equipment, trained attendants and other methods got an $84 million boost from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday. The grants will expand distribution of antibiotics, immunizations and clean childbirth kits in 18 developing countries, and will fund study of other cheap and easy ways to save infants. Four million babies die in the first month of life every year, virtually all of them in...
Six million children could be saved if $5.1 billion in new resources for preventive and therapeutic interventions were provided each year, according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and other institutions. Approximately 90 percent of all child deaths occur in 42 countries around the world. In those countries, the average cost per child saved would be $887 or $1.23 per capita. With the recent publication of the potential impact of proven interventions...
