Goal 4: Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa

A presentation by Ricky Foster, Molly Wannamaker, Fallon O’Brien, Karly Krammes, Denzyl Dechosa

What does this mean?

● Intended to reduce the under-five child mortality rate between the years of 1990-2015

● Worst child mortality rates across the globe are in Sub-Saharan Africa

● Past two decades overall child mortality rates have been reduced by over 50%

● Specific improvement in Sub-Saharan Africa

● multiple factors that correlate to higher child mortality rates:

○ living in a rural area (higher rates) versus an urban area

○ difference in maternal education

● so important because every day over 16,000 child under the age of five die

● most of them are due to extremely preventable causes

● imperative to prevent these deaths as much as possible

Causes of Child MortalityDisease:

Malaria, HIV, pneumonia, diarrhea, measles, tetanus, and common ailments like the flu

Neonatal:

Lack of proper neonatal and family care causes 40% of all childhood deaths, and 4 million babies die within the first year of life

Other common factors: Supplements of Vitamin A can reduce child mortality from all causes by 23%, measles by 50%, and deaths from diarrhea by 30%

Lack of oxygen at birth

marginalization / conflict

malnutrition and lack of clean water

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso BurundiCameroonCape VerdeCentral African Republic ChadComorosCongo (Brazzaville)Congo (Democratic Republic) Côte d’IvoireDjiboutiEquatorial GuineaEritrea

EthiopiaGabonThe GambiaGhanaGuineaGuinea – BissauKenyaLesothoLiberiaMadagascarMalawiMaliMauritaniaMauritiusMozambiqueNamibiaNigerNigeria

RéunionRwandaSao Tome and PrincipeSenegalSeychellesSierra LeoneSomaliaSouth AfricaSudan SwazilandTanzaniaTogoUgandaWestern SaharaZambiaZimbabwe

Groups Particularly Affected

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Factors of Affliction in Sub - Saharan Africa

- wealth- access to vaccination- ethnicity- geography- religion

Rapidly Changing Ways of Life

Household Wealth = More Absolute Goods and Nourishment

~Electricity~Running Water

-Ethnicity-Geography

Vaccinations > Hospitals

Vaccines can prevent the diseases that cause 50% of infants in Sub-Saharan to die before

their first birthday.

Malaria nets and available vaccines has proven more effective in combating child mortality

universally than hospitals and sparsely available healthcare.

UN Solutions and Actions● $255 million into new technology being researched for child and maternal

health

● In Nigeria, the “Saving One Million Lives” program (2012) launched: telephone lines for health workers, equipment preventing HIV transmission from mother to child, bed nets and other tools were given

● In Ethiopia, “Call to Action” engages the government, civil societies, UNICEF, and private sectors in a program called, “Committing to Child Survival: A Promised Renewed”

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