Launch of World Health Report 2005

Denis Aitken, right, Assistant Director-General and Director of the Office of the Director-General of the World Health Organisation, WHO, speaks with Marie-Paule Kieny, Director Family and Community Health of the WHO, prior to a press conference on the launch of the World Health Report 2004 "Make every mother and child count", at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday, April 5, 2005. The report highlights the fact that his year almost 11 million children under five years of age will die from causes that are largely preventable. Among them are 4 million babies who will not survive the first month of life. At the same time, more than half a million women will die in pregnancy, childbirth or soon after. (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron)