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Farinto said: “This training is geared towards making policies that affect women and children in the areas of health security, child survival, child rights and women’s rights because they are soft targets and are the most vulnerable in the society.

UNICEF in a statement in Birnin Kebbi by its Communication, Advocacy and Partnership Specialist, Malam Rabiu Musa, said malnutrition, air pollution and lack of access to vaccines and antibiotics were among the drivers of preventable deaths from pneumonia, which killed a child every three minutes in the country.