Press TV: African children dying 8 per minute
August 24th, 2007 | by TheAngryindian | | Post to NewsCloud »
Eight children under the age of five die every minute in Africa from diseases which have cures, figures unveiled by the UN reveal.
A statement released at a meeting between representatives of Portuguese-speaking governments in Africa, the UN’s World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF, said the children mainly died as a result of polio, tetanus and measles.
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