The World Health Organization says less than 40 percent of mothers around the world breast-feed their infants in the first six months.

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The country aims to reduce the ratio of infants dying before their first birthday to 50 per 1,000 live births or five percent.

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Cambodia is working to reduce the number of women who die in childbirth and to lower the number of infants and children under age five who die.

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"It gives the nutrients and the immune factors that are important for protecting infants against the most serious infections they can get, which is diarrhea and pneumonia,"

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"And for these infants we really had to even provide diapers and milk."

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But even when parents follow all the guidelines, putting their babies to sleep on their backs, removing blankets and stuffed animals from their cribs, infants still die without warning.

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Ann Veneman,is anExecutive Director of UNICEF, She says global efforts have stopped a downward trend in vaccinations and have even boosted the number of children and infants being vaccinated.

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Last year,84 infants died in Nigeria from tainted teething syrup.

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Seventy were senior citizens, and there were about 16 infants."

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