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Help Save Over 9 Million Children from Dying Unnecessarily This Year

Is it is possible to reach zero - zero young lives lost to preventable causes like pneumonia, diarrhea, malnutrition and infection?

Is this an impossible dream? No! We have seen what can be accomplished when both the White House and Capitol Hill work together to help poor countries. Recent Presidential Initiatives on HIV/AIDS and Malaria succeeded in mobilizing leadership, action and resources to make amazing progress in addressing those diseases.

But fighting those diseases is not enough. Though many child lives have been saved, too many countries - particularly in Africa - have shown little or no improvement over the past 10 years.

We want the President of the United States to take a stand for the world's children. The Presidential Initiative to Accelerate Child Survival would focus on doing what it takes to cut newborn, child and maternal mortality. We won't "get to zero" if we continue business as usual. We need to step things up. And we need President Obama to take the lead!
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Dear President Obama,

As informed and conscientious American, I agree to serve as a voice for the world's most vulnerable and least visible children. I call upon you to make child survival a Presidential priority.

Every single day, nearly 25,000 children in developing countries die from preventable or easily treatable causes.

All of them are poor. All of them are under age five. They have committed no wrongs. They have simply been born into poor families.

Child survival is also about mothers - newborns whose mothers die of any cause are many times more likely to die than those whose mothers survive. But more half a million mothers die during pregnancy and childbirth.

The technology, expertise and solutions to save the vast majority of these young lives exist right now. So why does it continue to happen year after year? Why should they continue to die of things that cost pennies to prevent or cure, like diarrhea, pneumonia and measles?

These children and women continue to die because they are too poor and too powerless to have a voice on the world's stage. As an American, I believe that a child's value is not measured by the wealth of his or her family or nation. Surviving to age five should not be a privilege reserved for children born into wealthy nations.

I ask my government, at its highest level, to acknowledge that these young lives can be saved, and that failure to do so is no longer acceptable. I request a new Presidential Initiative to Accelerate Child Survival that will scale up the coordinated, high-impact interventions that are proven to save child lives in even the poorest communities. I believe this Initiative should provide the executive leadership and the resources needed to make dramatic improvements in saving the lives of children and mothers worldwide.

Inexpensive and lifesaving solutions already exist. With leadership and focus, ultimately more than 9 million infants and young children can be saved each year. I believe that it is possible to go from 25,000 to zero - zero child lives lost to preventable causes. I want our President to help make it happen.
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The technology, expertise and solutions to save the vast majority of these young lives exist right now. So why does it continue to happen year after year? Why should they continue to die of things that cost pennies to prevent or cure, like diarrhea, pneumonia and measles? These children and women continue to die because they are too poor and too powerless to have a voice on the world's stage. As an American, I believe that a child's value is not measured by the wealth of his or her family or nation. Surviving to age five should not be a privilege reserved for children born into wealthy nations. I ask my government, at its highest level, to acknowledge that these young lives can be saved, and that failure to do so is no longer acceptable. I request a new Presidential Initiative to Accelerate Child Survival that will scale up the coordinated, high-impact interventions that are proven to save child lives in even the poorest communities. I believe this Initiative should provide the executive leadership and the resources needed to make dramatic improvements in saving the lives of children and mothers worldwide. Inexpensive and lifesaving solutions already exist. With leadership and focus, ultimately more than 9 million infants and young children can be saved each year. I believe that it is possible to go from 25,000 to zero - zero child lives lost to preventable causes. I want our President to help make it happen.

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