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Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

Target

Saving more lives

Reduce the child mortality rate of children under 5 by two-thirds, between the years 1990 and 2015

Launched at the UN MDG Summit in 2010, Every

Woman Every Child is an unprecedented global

movement, spearheaded by Secretary-General Ban

Ki-moon, to mobilize and intensify global action

to save the lives of 16 million women and children

around the world and improve the health and lives

of millions more

Facts

Bangladesh

Progress Chart

India

Over the past two decades,

persistent UNICEF-supported local-level efforts,

such as training community healthcare workers,

have led to a sharp decline in maternal and child

mortality in Bangladesh. Infant mortality declined

from 100 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 33

deaths per 1,000 live births in 2012. In the same

period, under-five mortality dropped by 72 per cent

from 144 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 41

in 2012.

  • Since 1990, the under-five mortality rate has dropped by 47 per cent.
  • While around 17,000 fewer children are dying each day, 6.6 million children under five died in 2012—mostly from preventable diseases.
  • More than 10 million lives have been saved through measles vaccines since 2000.
  • In sub-Saharan Africa, one in ten children dies before age five, more than 15 times the average for developed regions.

Madhya Pradesh, the second-largest state in India,

has the highest infant mortality rate in the country.

The state government and UNICEF are turning

things around by setting up healthcare facilities

linking rural communities to district hospitals, and

establishing health centres where there were none.

The Special Newborn Care Unit of the Shivpuri

District Hospital has alone saved more than

6,000 children

Despite this accomplishment, more rapid progress

is needed to meet the 2015 target of a two-thirds

reduction in under-five mortality. In 2012, an

estimated 6.6 million children—18,000 a day—

died from mostly preventable diseases. These

children tend to be among the poorest and most

marginalized in society.

The main killers are pneumonia, preterm birth

complications, diarrhoea, intrapartum-related

complications and malaria.

Also, undernutrition contributes to 45 per cent of

all under-five deaths

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