Preventable Child Deaths

Part of International Development – in the House of Commons at on 29 January 2020.

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Photo of Tim Loughton Tim Loughton Conservative, East Worthing and Shoreham

The UK Government have an outstanding record on contributing to the 50% fall in the number of children in developing countries who die before their fifth birthday but, even with that progress, UNICEF calculates that 52 million children will still die before the age of five by 2030. What more can we do to provide additional leadership to make sure we get rid of diseases like pneumonia, as well as the lack of access to basic vaccines, which will help to end this blight?