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is the VOA Special English Development Report. UNICEF says record low number of children are dying before the of five. The United Nations Children's Fund has records to nineteen sixty. It says the number has dropped ten million a year for the first time. By , there were almost thirteen million deaths in nineteen ninety. newest report says nine million seven hundred thousand children five died last year. Almost half were in southern . Just over three million were in South Asia. UNICEF Director Ann Veneman called the new findings historic but unacceptable. She says most of the deaths are preventable. says much of the progress is the result of efforts for early health interventions. One example is feeding only breast milk for the first six months. Also, children against measles has saved many lives. So has use of vitamin A to strengthen children's immune systems, chemically treated bed nets to prevent malaria. Morocco, Vietnam the Dominican Republic have reduced child deaths by more one-third since nineteen ninety-nine-. Madagascar has cut its rate forty-one percent; Sao Tome and Principe by nearly half. says progress in Asia, especially in China and India, helped drive the worldwide reduction since nineteen ninety. Death have dropped sharply in Latin America and the Caribbean, Soviet republics and countries in East Asia and the . Some countries in sub-Saharan Africa have also made considerable . Malawis under-five death rate dropped by twenty-nine percent between thousand and two thousand four. Reductions of more than percent were reported in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda Tanzania as well. In nineteen ninety, Asia had the child deaths. Now, rates are highest in west and Africa. Gains in child survival have fallen to the of HIV and AIDS. By two thousand fifteen, Africa of the Sahara could have almost sixty percent of deaths in children under five. But UNICEF says Latin and the Caribbean are on a path to reach UN.. Millennium Development Goal. The goal is to reduce death rate in children under five by two-thirds from ninety levels ---- and to do that by two fifteen. And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, by Jill Moss. Im Steve Ember.

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