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The Millennium Development Goals

Reduce child mortality

Goal 4: Stop the unnecessary loss of life
from preventable diseases.




The facts:
  • Every day, on average, more than 24,000 children under age 5 die around the world, mostly from preventable causes. Nearly all of them live in the developing regions.
  • Diarrhea accounts for almost 2 million deaths per year among children under 5.
  • Undernutrition is associated with up to 50 percent of child deaths.
Preventing sickness, instead of just treating it, saves money, effort, and lives. The immunization of more than 100 million infants each year saves the lives of about 2 million children and frees others from paralysis, visual impairment, and brain damage. Children living in poverty are the most vulnerable to disease and are typically the ones lacking both preventative care and treatment. World Vision is committed to empowering communities to ensure the health and well-being of their children and families.

How World Vision works to reduce childhood deaths

Preventative care: World Vision focuses on the prevention of childhood diseases through prenatal care and well-child care programs in countries worldwide. World Vision meets the health care needs of communities by building health centers or providing regular medical visits to rural communities, and training community health care workers, traditional birth attendants, and mothers.

Immunization and early childhood care: World Vision provides children around the world with vaccines, vitamin A, and nutritional supplements, and supports mothers through pregnancy and childbirth.









Eradicate Extreme Poverty & Hunger

Achieve Universal Primary Education

Promote Gender Equality & the Empowerment of Women

Reduce Child Mortality















Reduce Maternal Mortality

Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Other Diseases

Ensure Environmental Sustainability

Develop a Global Partnership for Development


What you can do

  • Pray that Americans will deepen their concern for people suffering from extreme poverty and AIDS; that Americans will get involved and speak out for the poor; and for the G8 leaders, that they will act with compassion and boldness to take historic action for the poor.
  • Advocate. Ask your members of Congress to support child survival legislation to help improve accountability and coordination of money being spent for child and maternal health.
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