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Anti-poverty goal will not be met: UN

SLOW PROGRESS While China and India had seen a drop in the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day, the benchmark for Africa will not be met by 2015

THE GUARDIAN , LONDON

So, while more than 550 million children have been vaccinated against measles since 2000, little action has been taken to prevent the daily death toll of 4,900 children afflicted with diarrhea, it said.

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