Millions of people around the world are dying from preventable and treatable diseases, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said Monday, urging developing countries to fight corruption and invest in better health systems. "Every week in the developing world, 200,000 children under 5 die of disease, and 10,000 women die giving birth," Wolfowitz said at a news conference in Paris at the opening of a high-level forum on the Millennium Development Goals in the health sector. Development issues have topped the global agenda this year, with the G8 group of industrialized nations pledging US$50 billion (¤42.8 billion) additional aid by 2010, including a doubling of aid to Africa.
