REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY
A child born in a developing country is over 13 times more likely to die within the first five years of life than a child born in an industrialized country. For the first time in 2006, annual deaths of children under five dropped below 10 million.
Summary of Country report
South Africa’s MDGs Report of 2005 reflected overall immunisation coverage of 78% based on 2002 estimates. Routine data subsequently indicated that the national immunisation coverage had increased to 83% as at the end of 2006. In October 2006, SA was declared as being Polio-free by the Africa Regional Certification Commission which is a subcommittee of the Global Certification Commission. Whilst this is still some distance away from the target of 20/1000 live births by 2015, it clearly shows that the movement is in the right direction.
Targets and indicators
Target 4.A: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
- 4.1 Under-five mortality rate
- 4.2 Infant mortality rate
- 4.3 Proportion of 1 year-old children immunised against measles
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