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World Service,11 Mar 2005,22 mins

Make Every Child Count

Health Matters

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A report on the prevention and cure of infectious childhood diseases. Four million newborn babies die in the first month of life. The World Health Organisation has unveiled its campaign Make Every Mother and Child Count, as the focus of World Health Day. Encouraging breast feeding could help fight some of the most fatal illnesses, malaria, measles and pneumonia. All deaths are preventable, claim doctors.

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