6%
Mortality rate for children under 5 in Bangladesh in 2007, down from 15% in 1990 — an improvement that has been attributed to efforts on the part of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals task force on child health [via GOOD]
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Special Reports
The Disease that Won’t Die: Tuberculosis in Peru
Tuberculosis has been brought under control in much of the world, thanks to prevention practices and powerful antibiotics. But in poor nations like Peru, the disease still kills hundreds of babies and children — and new drug-resistant cases threaten an even bigger resurgence.
