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| Saturday, 9 October 2004 |
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Healthcare privatisation fuelling Asian child deaths: UN report BANGKOK, Friday (AFP) The rising cost of privatised healthcare in Asia is behind a rise in
child deaths in Cambodia and caused more than half the region to fall
behind global goals to lower child mortality, a United Nations report
warned Friday. Cambodia, where one in seven children die before the age of
five, is the only country in the region where child mortality had risen
since 1990, but others lag well behind death reduction goals set by the
UN, the organisation's children fund (UNICEF) said. Other Stories
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