India averted 10L under 5-yr-olds' deaths since 2005: Study
India has averted around 10 lakh deaths of children under the age of five since 2005, a study conducted by the Lancet journal revealed on Tuesday. Deaths caused by measles have fallen by 90%, while pneumonia and diarrhoea mortality has declined by over 60% each, according to the study. "These declines were greater in girls," it further said.