WHAT a difference a bed net and a few vitamins make. The number of has dropped to below 10 million per year for the first time since records began in 1960. The UN children’s fund UNICEF reports that in 1960, on average 184 children died for every thousand born. Last year it was 72 – a fall of 61 per cent.
The riskiest region to be born is west and central Africa, where 186 children per thousand do not reach the age of five, though even there mortality has fallen by nearly…
