Every year over six million children die before they reach their fifth birthday, mostly from preventable causes such as pneumonia and diarrhea. The good news is that we have many proven effective tools to prevent and to treat disease and community-level approaches that are relatively low-cost within easy reach of a donor to support. In fact, an estimated two-thirds of child deaths can be prevented with the interventions available and feasible today.

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