Exponential Innovations Everywhere
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Joost Bonsen's Opinions on How Money, Ideas, and Talent can
Enable Health, Wealth, and Happyness for Each plus Achieve Liberty, Prosperity, and Vitality for All and Ultimately Help Us Spread Beyond Our Cradle Planet Earth
14 December 2008
Reducing Child Mortality ~ On Achieving MDG #4
Gapminder's Hans Rosling shows progress over time in achieving Millennium Development Goal #4 -- Reducing Child Mortality: cutting by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate -- in this Gapcast #11... You can map your own combination of statistics over time through the Gapminder World tool. There's much more work to be done to accomplish MDG #4: over 25,000 children under five die each day, mostly from preventable causes. That's just appalling. This is a population the size of MIT dying -- unnecessarily -- every day. Here's UNICEF television report on progress...
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