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Child Survival is a field of public health concerned with reducing child mortality. Child survival interventions are designed to address the most common causes of the estimated 11 million child deaths that occur each year, including diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, and neonatal conditions. According to an estimate by UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank, 2.4 millions child deaths can be prevented for 800$ US per child (1.92 billion $ US).^[1]



The British medical journal The Lancet has published a widely-quoted series of five articles outlining the current child survival situation, include challenges and feasible solutions, commonly referred to as "The Lancet Child Survival Series". The series outlines a number of child survival interventions which have been scientifically proven to reduce mortality, include oral rehydration therapy, sleeping under insecticide-treated mosquito nets, vitamin A supplementation, and community-based antibiotic treatment for pneumonia. Agencies promoting and implementing child survival activities worldwide include UNICEF and non-governmental organizations; major child survival donors worldwide include the World Bank, the British Government's Department for International Development, the Canadian International Development Agency and the United States Agency for International Development. In the United States, most non-governmental child survival agencies belong to the CORE Group, a coalition working, through collaborative action, to save the lives of young children in the world's poorest countries.
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1. Report by Kul C. Gautam, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF

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★ Millennium Development Goals