Millions of children dying for a dollar a day: 'Lancet' study

Six million children could be saved each year if poor countries spent just US$1.23 per capita on basic healthcare such as immunizations.
A study in the medical journal The Lancet published yesterday found that many simple measures, from encouraging breastfeeding to providing rehydration fluids for babies with diarrhea, are affordable for the 42 countries with the highest rate of child deaths, with help from the rich world.

A series by public-health experts in the Lancet in 2003 found that 6 million of these deaths could have been prevented. Today's paper, by Robert Black of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland and colleagues, costs the proposals for saving those 6 million lives a year. The total bill comes to US$5.1 billion a year, a fraction of what is currently spent on HIV/AIDS.

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