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L. We-thank, Y. Balma, H. Bambio, . Jean-louis-guène, S. Hague et al., Leonardo Menchini, a technical committee of the government of Burkina Faso, as well as Jingqing Chai and colleagues from the Policy and Practice division of UNICEF, provided extremely useful comments. This study was financed by UNICEF-Burkina Faso through the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP), which receives funding from the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom

, Under-five child mortality rate = 88.6 (per 1000) in 2015, down from 149.4 in 2006 (World Development Indicators, databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx, 2016.