[Sherman Logan]

According to WHO, it’s 3000 children per day.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2003/pr33/en/

But then that’s 1.1M/year, which means the article is still really screwy.

[jiggyboy]

Much obliged. In that case, the previously quoted "west Africa" number of 100K per year might still be consistent with 1M across the whole continent.