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Primary health for all

February 15, 2008
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Scientific American Magazine

A recent UNICEF report on child mortality provides some harrowing data combined with some startling hope. The shock is that 9.7 million children under the age of five years died in 2006. The good news in this bleak statistic is that it is actually down from 12.7 million in 1990, out of populations of roughly 630 million children under age five in both years. The even better news is that the remaining nearly 10 million deaths are themselves almost totally avoidable, at low cost, and in a way which will ease rather than exacerbate the population pressures of poor countries.

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