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Good news from UNICEF: more children than ever before are surviving beyond their fifth birthdays.A new report (5.2 MB PDF) available on UNICEF’s website estimates that the global number of deaths among children under age five has fallen from around 12 million in 1990 to 6.9 million in 2011. What’s more, UNICEF finds steady reductions in child deaths in all regions of the world over the past two decades.

PATH’s Jolayne Houtz is in Kenya as part of a small team observing our work there. She sent us this story from Bungoma County.

This may come as a surprise to those of us used to the whoosh-and-go world of the flush toilet, but getting rid of poop is not easy.

It’s one thing for us to tell you immunization is a lifesaver. It’s another to hear Ida Tapsoba talk about its value.