This undated handout photo, provided by Save the Children, shows a new mother as she is given help with her six-day-old baby from Prembati Rana, a Female Community Health Volunteer in Kanchanpur district in Nepal. About 15 million premature babies are born every year _ more than 1 in 10 of the world’s births and a bigger problem than previously believed, according to the first country-by-country estimates of this obstetric epidemic. The startling toll: 1.1 million of these fragile newborns die as a result, and even those who survive can suffer lifelong disabilities. (AP Photo/Michael Bisceglie, Save the Children)
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