The number of children dying before their fifth birthday dropped to 4.8 million in 2023, while stillbirths declined slightly but remained at approximately 1.9 million, according to two reports released on Tuesday by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME). Despite these achievements, decades of progress in child survival are now … Continue reading Global Child Mortality Reaches Record Low, But Funding Cuts Threaten Progress – UN Report