UNICEF’s first ever comprehensive report assessing the status of Africa’s children cited major challenges and some significant gains in the effort to cut that continent’s stubbornly high child mortality rates.
The State of Africa’s Children 2008: Child Survival, released late last month, noted that among the nearly 10 million children who die each year before they reach age five, half of those deaths occur in Africa.
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Thirty years ago, only one out of five children were immunized against killer diseases like measles and polio. Throughout the developing world, millions of children were dying of illnesses that had all but disappeared in the world’s wealthier countries. Since then, a near miracle has taken place. Now, four out of five children are protected by vaccines. Polio is on the verge of elimination. Measles and tetanus deaths have been reduced dramatically. This miracle did not happen by itself.
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