Donors launch $4 billion health fund to cut mother and child deaths

By Stella Dawson NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The World Bank has announced a new global fund to invest about $4 billion in healthcare for mothers and children in developing countries as part of a drive to end their preventable deaths by 2030. World leaders had agreed to reduce the maternal mortality by three-quarters and child mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. However, with one year left, they are falling well short of the goals. ...



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