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World Can Eliminate Preventable Child Death With Combination Of New Technologies, Capabilities
"Every child should have the opportunity to celebrate his or her fifth birthday," but 7.6 million "kids die within the first five years of life," a VOA editorial writes. "That is why [USAID] recently launched 'Every Child Deserves A Fifth Birthday,' an awareness-raising campaign leading up to the mid-June 'Child Survival: Call to Action' two-day conference," the editorial states, adding, "This high-level forum, convened by the governments of the United States, India and Ethiopia, together with [UNICEF], will mobilize political, non-governmental and private actors to end preventable child deaths."
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