child mortality

Deaths of over 6 million children preventable or treatable: UN report

Millions of children are still dying from preventable or treatable causes, despite huge progress in child mortality rates over the past 25 years.

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Somewhere, every five seconds, a child under 15 dies – new UN report

Around 6.3 million children under the age of 15, died from mostly preventable causes last year, the equivalent to one child dying every five seconds, according to a new report compiled by a group of United Nations agencies. Newborn babies account for half of the deaths.