LONDON – More than 9 million children all over the world, died before celebrating their fifth birthday in 2007, which is slightly, down in number from 2006, but a vast gap still remains between rich and poor countries, especially in Africa, UNICEF said.

Efforts to support breastfeeding, immunizations and eradication of malaria, have helped to cut down child death rate from 9.7 million to 9.2 in 2007 which was 12.7 million in 1990, the figures from the United Nations Children’s Fund showed.

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