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A.Hidalgo

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This is very good news indeed. Hopefully the government will invest more funds to the Health sector and hopefully this trend will continue.

A number of countries have made particularly dramatic progress since the previous surveys of 1999-2000, with Morocco, Vietnam and the Dominican Republic reducing their under-five mortality rates by more than one-third. Madagascar has cut its rate by 41 per cent, while Sao Tome and Principe has seen its rate fall by 48 per cent.
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UNICEF - Press centre - Child deaths fall below 10 million for first time
 
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George Holmes

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Great news - anyone want to speculate as to what policies and changes have led to this?

From my experience of living in rural bits of the DR, this could be lowered much further by a campaign promoting breast milk rather than baby formula. Almost no one in my village (a very poor one near Constanza) breast fed, but used baby formula on the basis of "if it is in a tin, and imported from America, it must be the best"
 
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