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The challenge, Currently, every tenth child in Mali dies before the age of 5, while one in 30 newborns do not survive the first month of life. In addition, more than half of children infected by HIV at birth do not survive their first 2 years of life. In this context, reducing child and neonatal deaths are priorit...
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