A $40 Billion Investment Could Save the World's Children

Briitsh Charity Save the Children has said that just $40 billion — less than half the amount Western countries spend on bottled water every year — could stop the needless deaths of millions of children. People in developing countries estimated the cost at $400 billion.

Save the Children Says $40 billion would dramatically reduce child mortality rates.In Afghanistan, one child in five will die before their fifth birthday, while across the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, the figure is one in seven.

World leaders have pledged in 2000 to cut the deaths of young children across the world by two-thirds by 2015, but progess in meeting that goal was “far too slow”, according to most global health agencies.

The report, titled The Next Revolution: Giving Every Child a Chance to Survive, recommends that countries make maternal, newborn and infant survival rates a key indicator of the development success, and urges them to take measures to improve these rates. via Al Jazzera English