IT IS, says Gabriel Demombynes, of the World Bank’s Nairobi office, “a tremendous success story that has only barely been recognised”. Michael Clemens of the Centre for Global Development calls it simply “the biggest, best story in development”. It is the huge decline in child mortality now gathering pace across Africa.
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Congo's maternal mortality rate exacerbated by poverty and ignorance | Global developme... - 0 views
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Kavita Masenga, the lead obstetric nurse at Kinshasa general hospital. Lack of investment has undermined work at the facility. Photograph: Cindy Shiner/AllAfrica
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"A "staggering" number of children around the world are dying before the age of five, according to the United Nation's child agency. Unicef' s latest figures estimate every day 17,000 under-fives die - 6.3 million a year - from largely preventable causes. This is despite the overall rate of infant mortality having been halved in the past two decades."
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