HEALTH: The "unfinished business" of lowering child mortality
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HEALTH: The "unfinished business" of lowering child mortality

Nairobi : Kenya | Sep 13, 2012 at 8:12 AM PDT
Source: IRIN
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In 1990, an estimated 12 million children around the world died under age five; by 2011, that figure had dropped to 6.9 million. Geeta Rao Gupta said at a press conference launching the 2012 Progress Report on Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed . "But this is unfinished business, and it is... FULL ARTICLE AT IRIN
 
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