(15 seconds) The Population Council investigates sustainable methods of reducing infant and child mortality in the developing world and conducts other research to find ways of improving people’s lives and health.

For more information, visit popcouncil.org/now. (listen)

(30 seconds) The Population Council investigates sustainable methods of reducing infant and child mortality in the developing world. We have shown that in rural Ghana child mortality can be significantly reduced by the introduction of mobile nurses who deliver basic health services, such as immunizations and medications, door-to-door. This program is now being scaled up across Ghana.

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Population Council: Research that makes a difference (listen)

(60 seconds) Children born in sub-Saharan Africa are twenty-five times more likely to die before their fifth birthday than children born in the United States. Researchers at the Population Council teamed with scientists in rural northern Ghana to investigate sustainable methods of reducing infant and child mortality. The team designed and evaluated an innovative, cost-effective program in which community nurses make home visits to deliver basic health services, such as immunizations and medications.

The experiment succeeded in reducing deaths among children less than 5 years old by two-thirds in eight years. A two-thirds reduction of mortality among children under age 5 by the year 2015 is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations in 2000. The Population Council’s program reached this goal in virtually half that target’s timeline.

For more information, visit popcouncil.org/now.
Population Council: Research that makes a difference (listen)