UNICEF will: under-five child mortality rate in 2008 continued a downward trend in
At 10:32 on September 11, 2009 Source: China News Net
BEIJING, September 11, according to Xinhua website reported that the United Nations Children's Fund September 10 published reports that the mortality rate of children under five in 2008, lasted nearly 20 years of a downward trend. Average per thousand live births in the number of deaths in 1990 to 90 cases to 65 cases, the number of deaths of children under five in 1990 to 12.5 million from reduced to 8.8 million.
 

Report, immunization, insecticide-treated nets for malaria prevention, vitamin A supplementation of key health interventions such as the increase in under-five child mortality rates declined year by year the main reason.

The report notes that almost all regions of the world's progress have emerged, including some of the most least developed countries. In Malawi, for example, that the country is the highest under-five child mortality rate, one of ten countries in 1990, per thousand live births in 225 deaths, but in 2008 had dropped to 100 cases. At present the country has the right track, is expected to achieve the Millennium Development Goals on schedule by 2015 two-thirds of under-five child mortality reduction targets. Nepal, Eritrea, Laos, Mongolia and Bolivia under-five child mortality rate by 4.5% every year or more slowed down.

Nevertheless, the report emphasized that global under-five child mortality rate in reducing the progress made is still insufficient to achieve the Millennium Development Goals requests.

Each year of children dying before the age of five, 93% live in Africa and Asia, 40% concentrated in India, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the three countries. Some countries in reducing child mortality, slow progress in South Africa, or even rise, not fall, which the country is the world's women living with HIV than any other country, since the mother's health and children's health are closely linked.