Correspondents across Africa and Asia examined what works and what doesn’t in the battle to end the nearly 7 million preventable child deaths that occur each year around the world. Reporters were dispatched to India, Bangladesh, Uganda, Zambia and Myanmar. The multimedia series brought to light untold stories from the most hard-to-reach places: the effects of corruption on malaria control in Uganda, the tension between pneumonia treatment and prevention in Zambia and the shortcomings of neonatal care in India. Investigative pieces from Washington documented how budget cuts threaten global health spending and how a well-intentioned global campaign to end child deaths has been hindered by a lack of coordination and funding.
