UNICEF report on the world's children

The State of the World's Children 2008 : Child Survival has just been made available as a 164 page report from Unicef.

"It provides a wide-ranging assessment of the current state of child survival and primary health care for mothers, newborns and children. It examines lessons learned in child health during the past few decades and outlines the most important emerging precepts and strategies for reducing deaths among children under age five and for providing a continuum of care for mothers, newborns and children".

Many developing countries have reduced child deaths over the past 25 years, which is cause for optimism. However, every day an average of 26,000 children under the age of five die around the world, mostly from preventable diseases and mostly in 60 developing countries, so much work is still needed.