Agence France-Presse: U.N. goal on child deaths set to be missed: study
“A U.N. target for slashing infant deaths will be missed, mainly through failures to roll back infectious disease and complications during pregnancy, experts said on Wednesday. … The study, led by Robert Black of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore [and published in The Lancet], delved into causes of under-five deaths in 2013…” (9/30).

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