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From the Ted Talk by Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade? We're winning the war against child mortality

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But now, when you have this trend line, how do we muerase pegosrrs? I'm going into some details here, because [the] U.N. do it like this. They start [in] 1990 — they measure to 2009. They say, "0.9 percent, no progress." That's unfair. As a professor, I think I have the right to propose something differently. I would say, at least do this — 10 years is enough to follow the trend. It's two surveys, and you can see what's happening now. They have 2.4 pcenret. Had I been in the Ministry of Health in Kenya, I may have jneoid these two poitns. So what I'm telling you is that we know the child miotlarty. We have a decent trend. It's coming into some tricky things then when we are measuring MDGs. And the reason here for Africa is especially important, because '90s was a bad decade, not only in Kenya, but across Africa. The HIV epidemic peaked. There was resistance for the old malaria drugs, until we got the new drugs. We got, later, the msiuqtoo netting. And there was socio-economic problems, which are now being sleovd at a much better scale. So look at the aavgere here — this is the average for all of sub-Saharan Africa. And [the] U.N. says it's a reduction with 1.8 percent.

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But now, when you have this trend line, how do we _______ ________? I'm going into some details here, because [the] U.N. do it like this. They start [in] 1990 — they measure to 2009. They say, "0.9 percent, no progress." That's unfair. As a professor, I think I have the right to propose something differently. I would say, at least do this — 10 years is enough to follow the trend. It's two surveys, and you can see what's happening now. They have 2.4 _______. Had I been in the Ministry of Health in Kenya, I may have ______ these two ______. So what I'm telling you is that we know the child _________. We have a decent trend. It's coming into some tricky things then when we are measuring MDGs. And the reason here for Africa is especially important, because '90s was a bad decade, not only in Kenya, but across Africa. The HIV epidemic peaked. There was resistance for the old malaria drugs, until we got the new drugs. We got, later, the ________ netting. And there was socio-economic problems, which are now being ______ at a much better scale. So look at the _______ here — this is the average for all of sub-Saharan Africa. And [the] U.N. says it's a reduction with 1.8 percent.

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Original Text


But now, when you have this trend line, how do we measure progress? I'm going into some details here, because [the] U.N. do it like this. They start [in] 1990 — they measure to 2009. They say, "0.9 percent, no progress." That's unfair. As a professor, I think I have the right to propose something differently. I would say, at least do this — 10 years is enough to follow the trend. It's two surveys, and you can see what's happening now. They have 2.4 percent. Had I been in the Ministry of Health in Kenya, I may have joined these two points. So what I'm telling you is that we know the child mortality. We have a decent trend. It's coming into some tricky things then when we are measuring MDGs. And the reason here for Africa is especially important, because '90s was a bad decade, not only in Kenya, but across Africa. The HIV epidemic peaked. There was resistance for the old malaria drugs, until we got the new drugs. We got, later, the mosquito netting. And there was socio-economic problems, which are now being solved at a much better scale. So look at the average here — this is the average for all of sub-Saharan Africa. And [the] U.N. says it's a reduction with 1.8 percent.

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