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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
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.
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