Philip Riley: “I rise in support of the bill, and in particular, the child survival activities as outlined by the gentleman from Ohio…”

“I rise in support of the bill, and in particular, the child survival activities as outlined by the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Hall] and the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Obey]. Each and every day, 35,000 children die around the world from largely preventable--and I must underscore preventable--malnutrition and disease. Yet UNICEF's ``State of the World's 1993'' report states: ``In the decade ahead, a clear opportunity exists to make the breakthrough against what might be called the last great obscenity--the needles malnutrition, disease, and illiteracy that still cast a shadow over the lives, and the futures, of the poorest quarter of the world's children.'' Funding for programs such as child survival has increased from $0 in fiscal year 1984 to $275 million in fiscal year 1993 and child deaths rates have plummeted. In 1980, five million children died each year from six vaccine-preventable diseases--measles, tetanus, whooping cough and three others--coupled with malnutrition.”