Monday, September 20, 2010

Child Death Rate Down By A Third Since 1990 – UNICEF

Pouya Rohani

September 20, 2010

7:26 pm

One of the Millennium development goals was reduction of the child mortality rate by two thirds by 2015. According to Unicef, mortality rate for children under five years of age has dropped by one third since 1990 around the world. This means that one thousand two hundred less children are dying every day than the death rate in 1990. Some countries increase basic public health and nutrition services like breastfeeding and providing safe drinking water. These actions helped the most to near the completion of one of the eight goals of the Millennium development goals. According to World Bank report, other than reducing the global poverty level to the half that is likely to be achieved by 2015, not much progress has been done to meet other goals like reducing hunger, access to health care and education. Still, a huge number of children are dying around the world each day; about twenty two thousands per day. Most child deaths happened in a handful of countries. In 2009, half of the child deaths happened in India, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, and China. Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest rate of mortality, one in eight.

I was shock when I read that twenty two thousand children under five years of age are dying each day. This is the number after child mortality in the same age group was dropped by one third from 1990. It seems that just recently countries had woken up to perform some actions to reduce this catastrophe. Not many actions are needed to reduce the huge number of mortality among children around the world. For example, educating women to control their number of babies and talk to them about negative consequence of having many children in their lives. Providing basic health care in poor areas can reduce mortality rate considerably.

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE68F5O520100916?sp=true

7 comments:

Morgan West said...

I am so glad that something is finally being done about the mortality rate of children. It is awesome that in 10 years the rate has gone down one/third of what it was. This proves to me that we can do anything, as long as we put our minds to it. I am very happy and hopeful as a result of reading your blog!

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