Friday, November 11, 2011

Scaling Impact to Save Lives


As the world’s population hit 7 billion yesterday, there’s been a lot of talk about the incredible advances the global community has made improving the health of the world’s poorest people and saving lives, especially when it comes to children. In 1960, about 20 million children died before they turned five years old. By 2010, that number was reduced to less than 8 million. This is undeniable progress.

But the fact that almost 8 million children still die each year highlights the tremendous amount of work that still lies ahead. How will we continue to bring this number down?

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