(photo Perlafrica. Bimbo's Village) Yesterday was presented the 2008 UNICEF report .
Below is an excerpt from their site with our invitation to download and read all or part of their material.
26,000 CHILDREN BELOW 5 YEARS ARE DYING EVERY DAY DESERVE SOME 'OF OUR TIME .
"The annual report of UNICEF " The State of the World " this year is titled" To be born and grow up healthy. "
The report examines the strategies to combat infant mortality, neonatal and maternal recent decades, pointing out the actions more "traditional" (vaccinations, rehydration salts therapy, breastfeeding, etc..) obtained great success in countering the most frequent causes of death among children, such as infections or diarrhea.
The tangible sign of this progress was the news, spread by UNICEF in September 2007 , for the first time in recent history, the annual number of child deaths globally fell under 10 million cases.
However, still more than 26,000 children under age 5 die each day in the world for reasons that could be easily prevented.
A to slaughter are mostly respiratory tract infections and mortality-related causes pregnancy and childbirth , combined with the effects of widespread chronic malnutrition and malaria .
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