16,000 children aged under five die each dayWhile child mortality rates worldwide have plummeted to less than half of what they were in 1990, around 16,000 children under five still die every day, according to a new report. Under-five deaths have dropped from 12.7 million p More… |
9.7m kids die before reaching 5: UnicefNearly 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday from diseases from pneumonia to malaria, the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) said. But simple, affordable measures could save more lives, it said. While the ann More… |