Three Million Lives A Year Could be Saved For $5 Per Person

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Even cheap interventions could save millions of lives a year. Phloxii/Shutterstock

Close to 6 million children under the age of five died in 2015 of easily preventable or treatable diseases. Three hundred thousand women die from conditions related to pregnancy, most of which are similarly within our power to treat. More than half of these, along with huge numbers of still births, could be eliminated for a cost of less than $5 per person per year, according to a paper in The Lancet.