"Improving quality health care around the time of birth and providing special care for sick and small newborn babies is absolutely essential to saving babies," said Ethiopia's Minister of Health Lia Tadesse.

"We are delighted with this grant as it will go a long way towards improving the quality of health care provided to some of the most remote and disadvantaged communities in Ethiopia," said UNICEF Representative Adele Khodr. "For this, we express our heartfelt gratitude to the People's Republic of China."

The UNICEF statement said that the grant comes against a backdrop of progress in reducing child deaths in Ethiopia.

In 1990, about 222 children out of a thousand were dying before their fifth birthday. By 2019, the number had declined to 55 deaths. Despite this reduction, deaths of newborn babies have remained stubbornly high, with 100,000 dying every year and accounting for 55 percent of all under-5 child deaths.

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