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AAP News Vol. 2 No. 8 August 1986, p. 1 © 1986 American Academy of Pediatrics
The child survival revolution a global attempt to give wanted children a chance to reach a healthy adulthood hasn't quite been realized, one of its most ardent supporters noted last month in his keynote address at the International Congress of Pediatrics. Speaking to pediatricians who traveled from around the world to attend the Hawaii conference, D.A. Henderson, M.D., discussed the goals that must be attained to prevent disease and early death among the world's children. Dr. Henderson is dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and the man behind the World Health Organization's successful eradication of smallpox disease.
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