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Child Survival
Every child has the right to life. Yet in 2009 around 9 million young children and newborn babies will die needlessly from conditions that are easily preventable and treatable.
It is unjustifiable that children still die from pneumonia, diarrhoea, measles and other conditions that the world has both the knowledge and resources to cure. In 2000, the world's leaders agreed, making a commitment to ‘reduce the under-five mortality rate by two thirds by 2015' in its Millennium Development Goal Four.
The goal of our global campaign, Every One, is to ensure that Millennium Development Goal 4 is achieved. This means that child mortality is reduced by two thirds by 2015, from 1990 levels, and in 2015 more than 5 million children’s lives will be saved each year.
Save the Children will:
- Significantly increase our commitment to programmes in newborn and child health and nutrition.
- Play a leading role in ensuring that governments meet their responsibilities to children.
- Build a movement of tens of millions of people to help us secure change.
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