This is the first in a series of 15 facts over 15 days that we will be sharing with you to get you up to speed on what’s at stake in 2015.
While there have already been large reductions in child mortality since 2000, 6.3 million children under the age of five died in 2013. That’s 17,000 children dying a day from preventable causes, which is 17,000 too many.
If the best interventions are scaled up now,we could reduce child mortality by 2/3 by 2030.
Child mortality is just a wonky way of saying ‘kids dying’. Think of a child you know under 5. Now think of 17,000 such beautiful children dying every day, from causes we can prevent…why wouldn’t we stop that?