Households given a one-off payment of $1,000 dollars saw infant mortality drop by almost 50 per cent
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Households given a one-off payment of $1,000 dollars saw infant mortality drop by almost 50 per cent
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Giving women a cash payment just before they give birth could halve infant mortality rates and provide a cost-effective way of saving lives in the face of shrinking aid budgets, a study in Kenya has suggested.
Simply giving money to poor families at certain times reduced deaths among young children by nearly half, a new study found.
The measures could also save the NHS more than £40 million annually
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