The Child Mortality Rate Will Drastically Decline Worldwide
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The Goalkeepers report from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is hoping that the childhood mortality rate for children five and younger will continue to improve. In 2016, an astonishing five million cases of childhood mortality were recorded. Gates believes that number will drop to around two million. Gates credits the decline with better access to emergency medical care, vaccination education, and other forms of intervention. “Close to half of the almost 5 million children who will die next year will die in the first 28 days of their lives. Most could be saved by a few simple interventions: for example, resuscitation if they can’t breathe, antiseptics that cost pennies to prevent infection, and breastfeeding to strengthen their immune systems,” Melinda Gates explains. But not all medical predictions from Bill and Melinda are good, especially for HIV.
