child mortality Quotes

When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now... ...

The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and... ...

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

In 1990, one in 10 children died before the age of five. That's now down to one in 20, and vaccines were the single biggest factor in that. Had it stayed at 10 percent, 122 million more children would have... ...