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Millennium Villages Project Research Yields Positive Results, But Some Researchers Question Methods Used
"Death rates among children under five at the [Millennium Villages Project (MVP)] -- set up in Africa to demonstrate what is possible if health, education, agriculture, and other development needs are tackled simultaneously -- have fallen by a third in three years compared with similar communities, according to the project's first results," published in the Lancet on Tuesday, the Guardian reports (Boseley, 5/8). The study "offers quantitative evidence of the success of the MVP model at nine Millennium Village sites in sub-Saharan Africa," Nature News writes, adding, "Between 2006 and 2009, mortality in under-fives fell by an average of 22 percent, reaching a level roughly two-thirds of that in control villages not involved with the project, where child mortality seemed to rise."
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