Prioritizing low-cost, simple health measures would save 2.5 million child lives a year

Monday, November 16, 2009 - 07:35 in Health & Medicine

New York, Nov. 16, 2009 -- Almost a third of the children under age five who die each year could be saved if governments rebalance health spending to ensure low-cost, simple interventions such as safe water and hygiene, bed nets and basic maternal and newborn care, leading aid agency World Vision said today.

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