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  Swachh Bharat Mission's toilets helped avert 70,000 infant deaths per year: Study

  India | September 05, 2024 22:50 IST

  As per researchers, the findings fall in line with evidence from global and South Asian contexts, with multiple studies, indicating that improved sanitation can potentially cut child mortality rates by 5-30 per cent.

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  India’s child mortality rate declines since 2005 by saving 1 mn lives, still more needs to be done- Lancet

  Lifestyle | September 21, 2017 17:00 IST

  Between 2000 and 2015, 29 million children below five died of different causes in India, data by the United Nations show.

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  Child mortality halved since 1990: UN

  World | September 14, 2013 10:02 IST

  United Nations: With global and national efforts to end preventable deaths of children under five years of age, child mortality worldwide has been on decline by half since 1990, a UN report said Friday.According to