African countries make bold commitments to end preventable deaths of children under five by 2030 - Capital Newspaper

African countries make bold commitments to end preventable deaths of children under five by 2030 - Capital Newspaper

African countries have made bold pledges to address the continent’s maternal and child mortality crisis, as a challenging health landscape, shrinking resources, climate change and conflict threaten to reverse decades of progress in child survival.Nearly five million children die from preventable causes before the age of five every year. Close to 60 per cent of these deaths occur in Africa, many of them caused by infectious diseases such as pneum…