The Goal: Reduce Infant Mortality
What Do We Want to Achieve?
- Reduce by two-thirds, the under-five mortality rate
What Have We Already Achieved?
- Five in nine developing regions have reduced the under-five mortality rate by 50%
- In 20 years, the number of deaths in children under the age of 5, has decreased from 12.4 million to 7.6 million per year
- The number of deaths from measles worldwide has decreased by 74%
What Challenges Remain?
- Confronting preventable diseases like pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria is key to reducing infant mortality
- Providing education to mothers is also fundamental in decreasing infant deaths
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- August 1, 2012Audio Gallery of MDG Success Stories From UNMC Spanish Campaign - The UN Millennium Campaign teams up with RNE – the Spanish National Radio Station- to talk the progress made towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Listen to the following five broadcasts aired at … Continue reading
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