Child deaths

COVID-19 could reverse decades of progress toward eliminating preventable child deaths, agencies warn

by News Hour Correspondent - Sep 9, 2020

The number of global under-five deaths dropped to its lowest point on record in 2019 – down to 5.2 million from 12.5 million in 1990, according to new mortality estimates released by UNICEF, the World Health...
Increase in global life expectancy offset by war, obesity, and substance abuse

by News Hour Correspondent - Oct 8, 2016

News Hour: Improvements in sanitation, immunizations, indoor air quality and nutrition have enabled children in poor countries to live longer over the past 25 years, according to a new scientific analysis of more than 300 diseases...

COVID-19 could reverse decades of progress toward eliminating preventable child deaths, agencies warn