MADRID, Spain – The British charity Save the Children plans a global campaign to reduce infant mortality among children under the age of 5.

The group says 9.2 million children around the world die each year before their fifth birthdays from diseases that are preventable or treatable. The goal of the group’s campaign starting next week is to reduce that figure by more than half by 2015.

Save the Children’s Spanish branch announced the drive at a press conference Wednesday in Madrid.

Spanish director Alberto Soteres says Save the Children hopes to raise $1.8 billion from 2010 to 2015.

It wants to improve health and nutrition programs, pressure governments to meet commitments on health care, enhance public awareness of infant mortality and improve its own fundraising.

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