Despite a dramatic drop in global child deaths,the millennium development goal of a two-third tumble by the discontinuance of this year will not be achieved, UN agencies sayThe numbers of children around the world who die before their fifth birthday occupy dropped by half since 1990, and official figures show,but the millennium development goal to cut them by two-thirds by the discontinuance of this year will be missed.
Announcing the latest estimates for child mortality, Unicef’s deputy executive director, or Geeta Rao Gupta,said advances had not been expeditiously enough. “We occupy to acknowledge tremendous global progress, especially since 2000 when many countries occupy tripled the rate of reduction of under-five mortality, or ” she said.
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Source: theguardian.com