New Zealand
24,000 children under the age of five will die today — their lives cut short before they’d really begun. Most of their deaths could have been prevented. But the reality is that not every child has an equal chance of survival. Children from the poorest communities are most likely to die.
A small number of diseases and conditions are the biggest killers of young children today. Pneumonia, measles, diarrhoea, malaria, HIV and AIDS and complications during pregnancy and after birth cause more than 90% of deaths in children under five. Children who are malnourished are at far greater risk of dying from these causes because they're too weak to fight disease.
We have launched the EVERY ONE campaign because every child, everywhere, has the right to life.
Proven, low-tech and inexpensive solutions exist to stop children dying. But they’re simply not being deployed on the scale needed to tackle the problem. What we need is the will — from politicians, the public, aid agencies, companies, EVERY ONE — to make it happen on a global scale.
If EVERY ONE did one thing, we can make a difference.
Our goal is to ensure that Millennium Development Goal 4 is achieved. This means that child mortality is reduced by two thirds by 2015, from 1990 levels. By 2015 that would mean 5 million children’s lives will be saved each year.
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