Death rate for kids under 5 falling, still high, U.N. says
Posted: September 11, 2009 at 4:53 a.m.
It is unacceptable that 8.8 million children die every year before their fifth birthdays - 40 percent of them in India, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.N. children's agency said Thursday.
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