Child Survival

I browsed the UNICEF’s „State of the World’s Children 2008″ report:

• On average, more than 26.000 children under the age of 5 die every day.
• In up to a half of these, an underlying cause is undernutrition.
• In the past 46 years, the number of child deaths has halved.
• Pneumonia kills more children than any other disease. Pneumonia fills the lung’s alveoli with fluid, keeping oxygen from reaching the bloodstream. Healthy children have natural defences that protect their lungs from the pathogens that cause pneumonia.
• Every year the births of around 51 million children go unregistered. These children are almost always from poor, marginalized or displaced families.