Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) are the most common type of birth defect affecting one in every 100 babies born and about half of those will require a heart operation. 

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HEART disease death rates have been cut by more than half in the past two decades, with targets set in the 1990s for a reduction in the death rate being met.