Sentence examples for slashing mortality from inspiring English sources

And they are short of the aspirations of the United Nations Millennium Declarationn of 2000, which set a goal of slashing mortality rates of children under 5 to 31 deaths per 1,000 live births by 2015.

Nightingale's famous "coxcomb" chart from 1858 demonstrated that improving hygiene in British military hospitals slashed mortality rates.

And even when effective drugs are available--such as the cocktail of AIDS drugs that has slashed mortality in wealthy countries--they may be too expensive for countries in Africa and Asia.

Among their vital goals: halving extreme poverty and hunger from 1990 levels, reducing by two-thirds the child-mortality rate and slashing maternal mortality by three-quarters and achieving universal primary education.

Profound work has been done with aid, like slashing child mortality in Africa, and without aid, such as the UN Development Programme's reporting on the Arab world.

Public health doctors say the measles-malaria strategy has the potential to strengthen the appeal of drives to slash child mortality.

Despite pledging to slash maternal mortality by 2015, the numbers of women dying in some regions are rising, fuelled by increasing poverty and crumbling health services.

China has slashed AIDS mortality by nearly two-thirds since it began distributing free antiretroviral drugs in 2002, Chinese government scientists are reporting.

On Monday, nearly half a century after her life-changing quest began, Tu was awarded the Nobel prize in medicine for her role in creating a drug that helped slash malaria mortality rates in Africa and Asia, saving millions of lives.

We could hire more police and border patrol agents, expand Head Start and rehabilitate America's image in the world by underwriting a global drive to slash maternal mortality, eradicate malaria and deworm every child in Africa.

This new government slashed infant mortality and achieved near-universal literacy rates.