Preventing child deaths

Evaluating interventions to identify the most effective strategies for preventing unintentional injuries to children. Reducing the unintentional injury and related death of children.

The director of UNICEF, in 1992, estimated that it would take about $25 billion a year extra, spread among poor countries, rich countries and the international banks, to bring to an end the age-old evils of child malnutrition, preventable disease and widespread illiteracy.