Archive for November 17th, 2009
Nearly one-third of children under five years of age could be saved if governments would rebalance health spending to provide simple intervention in basic child safety measures. Budgeting more funds to educate and bring to the forefront these projects can save lives. The most common of these are the following:
- safe water and hygiene
- bed nets
- basic maternal and newborn care
A new report reveals that if we put priority on the top child killers of pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria, by scaling up simple preventive health measures for mothers and children, we would make rapid progress in saving lives.
For more information about this study, see World Vision (2009, November 16). Prioritizing low-cost, simple health measures would save 2.5 million child lives a year. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 16, 2009 from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/09lll6085045.htm.