Diarrhoeal diseases still kill more than 1.5m children under 5 each year

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BMJ 2007;335:1227 (15 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.39426.352685.DB

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Diarrhoeal diseases still kill more than 1.5m children under 5 each year

Peter Moszynski

¹ London

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The number of children under 5 dying each year has fallen tobelow 10 million for the first time, but a lack of sanitationis still causing many unnecessary deaths, a new report fromUnicef revealed this week.

A new statistical review launched to coincide with the UnitedNations General Assembly’s special session for children,10-12 December, has published detailed figures on child healthworldwide in four categories: health, HIV/AIDS, education, andthe protection of children.

Progress for Children gives the latest global, national, andregional statistics on how the world is progressing towardsachieving the millennium development goals (MDGs) and the childspecific targets set out at the previous special session fiveyears ago.

In 2006, for the first time, the annual global deaths of childrenunder 5 have fallen below 10 million, to 9.7 million—a60% reduction since 1960. Overall, in most regions, in additionto improvement in . . . [Full text of this article]

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