World: The Child Survival Dividend: How saving children's lives generates compounding returns for economic prosperity, global security and our shared humanity
Summary by Christgiving Editorial Desk · Byline on the source page: UN Children's Fund, as published by ReliefWeb
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Highlights Over the past two decades, sustained investment in immunization, nutrition, health systems and water, sanitation and hygiene drove one of humanity's greatest development achievements: annual under-five deaths fell from 10.1 million to 4.9 million. Aid cuts, rising debt burdens, inadequa
. The temporary ceasefire enables the repair of a backup transformer that has been damaged by military activity near the Zaporizhzhya Thermal Power Plant. The repair will strengthen the connection between the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) and the Ferosplavna-1 330 kV of...
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