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    Care for every child

    Eating at a community school, Mali (c)Save the Children UK/Tim Hetherington/Network Photographers

    All children have the right to the healthiest possible start in life.

    All children have the right to the healthiest possible start in life. Yet despite impressive improvements in child health, nearly 11 million children under the age of five still die each year. The majority of these deaths could be prevented. Children are dying of measles and tetanus, both which can be prevented with a simple immunization. They are dying of pneumonia, malaria and diarrhoea, without access to the medication that could save their lives.

    We can start caring for children even before they are born, by caring for their mothers, and it is equally important to enable children to protect their own health. Child-friendly health services must be made available, and children must also learn to seek out appropriate care.

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