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Preterm births to blame for child deaths, medics say

NAIROBI: Medical experts now claim complications related to premature births are the leading cause of death in children under the age of five.

The medical experts converged for a three-day Preterm Birth Initiative-East Africa (PTBI) meeting 2016 in Nairobi last week. The meeting was spearheaded by research institutions including University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Aga Khan University, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Makerere University and the University of Rwanda.

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