![]() Since 1990, the global under-5 mortality rate has dropped by 59%, from 93 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 38 in 2019. The total number of under-5 deaths worldwide has declined from 12.6 million in 1990 to 5.2 million in 2019. Substantial global progress has been made in reducing child deaths since 1990. ![]() Who is most at risk? Children under the age of 5 Injuries (including road traffic injuries and drowning) are the leading causes of death among older children. Older children (5-9 years) had one of the largest declines in mortality since 1990 (61%), due to a decline in infectious diseases.Leading causes of death in children under-5 years are preterm birth complications, birth asphyxia/trauma, pneumonia, congenital anomalies, diarrhoea and malaria, all of which can be prevented or treated with access to simple, affordable interventions including immunization, adequate nutrition, safe water and food and quality care by a trained health provider when needed.An additional 500,000 older children (5 to 9 years) died in 2019.Newborns (under 28 days) accounted for the remaining 2.4 million deaths. Children aged 1 to 11 months accounted for 1.5 million of these deaths while children aged 1 to 4 years accounted for 1.3 million deaths. In 2019 an estimated 5.2 million children under 5 years died mostly from preventable and treatable causes.Suddenlink simplifies its customers’ lives through one call for support, one connection, and one bill for TV, Internet, phone and other services. Suddenlink ( ) is the seventh largest cable operator in the United States, supporting the information, communication and entertainment demands of approximately 1.4 million residential and commercial customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia and elsewhere. in Amarillo, 1205 23rd St., Suite 1, in Canyon, and 125 E. More information about local Suddenlink high-speed Internet services is available at, by visiting Suddenlink’s customer care offices at 5800 W. Suddenlink will communicate additional details to customers in the area as the investments continue and again when the 1 Gigabit service is available. In addition, while Suddenlink already offers its business customers a range of custom services capable of multi-Gigabit speeds, the company also plans to enhance its standard commercial services through this project. Nearly half of the planned 1 Gigabit launches are expected to be completed in 2015 and most of the remainder the following year. The three-year program includes an investment of almost a quarter-billion dollars, above and beyond other capital improvements. This project will progressively boost Internet speeds and eventually make a 1 Gigabit per second service available to virtually all of Suddenlink’s customers. Introducing faster Internet speeds is the first phase of “Operation GigaSpeed,” announced in August 2014. (Customers who currently subscribe to the 107 Mbps service and wish to keep it can do so.) Suddenlink’s standard Internet service offerings in the Amarillo, Canyon and Tulia areas will now have download speeds up to 50, 75, 100 and 150 Mbps. Customers with 15, 30 and 50 Mbps services are being upgraded to faster speeds and are being notified directly about those new speeds. Suddenlink also announced that Internet speeds for its existing customers have been increased. ![]() This continues to be the fastest residential Internet service offered in the area. AMARILLO, Texas (April 2, 2015) – Suddenlink has launched a new high-speed Internet service with a download speed up to 150 Megabits per second (Mbps) and an upload speed up to 7.5 Mbps in Amarillo, Canyon and Tulia. ![]()
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