UNICEF: State of the World's Children report released

NEW YORK, 22 January 2008 -- Fatma, 2, is one of the thousands of Kenyan children whose lives have been saved by a cheap and simple preventive health measure.

The mass distribution of insecticide-treated bednets in Kenya has halved deaths from malaria in the past five years. Its success is part of a range of community-based health programmes that, UNICEF believes, hold the key to meeting the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds -- and achieving other MDGs -- by 2015.

UNICEF's flagship report The State of the World's Children 2008, which was released today in Geneva, says the health needs of women, mothers and newborn children must be a priority if the MDGs are to be met. The new information in The State of the World's Children 2008 is drawn from household survey data as well as material from key partners, including the World Health Organization and the World Bank.

To read the full story, visit: http://www.unicef.org/childsurvival/index_42503.html

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