MP SUPPORTS CALLS TO END PREVENTABLE CHILD DEATHS

22 feb 2010

Stafford’s Labour MP David Kidney has given his backing to the global campaign to end preventable child deaths. He is writing to the International Secretary, Douglas Alexander MP, to express his support for World Vision’s “Child Health Now” campaign. It calls for action to end the international child health emergency that is currently claiming the lives of 24,000 children under the age of five every day.

David Kidney explains:

“These are tough times for all of us because of the effects of the global recession, but even so, surely it is unacceptable that every year millions of children in poorer countries are dying from things which are easily prevented here in the UK. Diseases like diarrhoea and measles should no longer be killers.

“Governments need to be smarter about the aid they give and its purposes – for example, spending money on health to make sure that more lives are saved.

“World Vision argues that at least two-thirds of the children under five dying from conditions like pneumonia, diarrhoea and neonatal complications could be saved if governments make child health a priority and refocus health spending on prevention in the community and not just cures at clinics.”

World Vision’s report CHILD HEALTH NOW is a global five-year campaign to hold governments to account on their pledge to cut under-five deaths by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.

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Together we can end preventable deaths - the Child Health Now launch report

Find out more about the campaign and the issues behind; read the launch report. 

 Child Health Now launch report - full version 

 

For ease of use below are the chapters of the report broken down into smaller pdfs:

 Child Health Now report: Cover and Preface

Child Health Now - Executive Summary

Child Health Now - Introduction

Child Health Now - Chapter 1- The silent emergency

Child Health Now - Chapter 2 - The causes of the emergency

 Child Health Now - Chapter 3 - What rich countries must do: more money for child health, more child health for the money

 Child Health Now - Chapter 4 - Progress is possible: Reasons for optimism

 Child Health Now - Chapter 5 - Conclusions and Recommendations

 Child Health Now - Annex

 Child Health Now - Infographic - Child Death Breakdown

 Child Health Now - infographic - Child Mortality bar chart

 Child Health Now - Infographic - MDG target

 Child Health Now - Infographic - mother child

 

 

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Location of the 9 million under 5 child deaths [Click on graphic to expand]

 

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Child mortality spread between rich and poor communities in the developing world [Click on graphic to expand