The best and worst countries to save children

The NGO estimates that 12 million children under five die of diseases that could be prevented, in 1990. A number reduced to 6.6 million in 2012. However, he warns that this difference is not significant to achieve the goal of reducing child mortality by two thirds by 2015.

According to the index "EveryOne" children who live in the last 20 countries in the index have fives times more likely to die than those who live in countries that are listed at the top of the index.

This report comes two weeks before a major u.n. meeting in New York, where the central theme will be the countries where children die, simply because there are not enough health professionals for relatively simple tasks, such as vaccination programmes, care in pregnancy and childbirth monitoring. Also according to the "Save The Children" there is a shortage of more than 3.5 million doctors, nurses, midwives to a global level.



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Nigeria is especially praised in the report, because although it is one of the world's poorest countries, has reduced the mortality rate of children under five years old in about two-thirds since 1990 and seems ready to achieve the goals of the UNITED NATIONS, when it comes to infant mortality. The country provides free health care to pregnant women and children as well as nutrition programs.

Rwanda, Indonesia, Madagascar, and India are also in the top ranking of the index, all made sustainable progress. In the last places are the countries where there is low investment in health and nutrition. Numbers, percentages and estimates that make these countries in the best or worst save percentage more important: the survival of children.

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