Development Cooperation Handbook/Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

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Goal 4: Reduce child mortality


Each year, millions of children die due to lack of hygiene and exclusion from health care services.

The number of children dying in the poorest countries is nearly 20 times higher than those dying in developed countries. In a world that has so many resources and means, allowing such massacre to take place is unacceptable.

The MDG 4  aims at lowering child mortality rates through expanding health care services and addressing determinants of child health.

In the world now, child mortality rates are falling but 22.6 million children still lack access to basic vaccines and an ever increasing number of poor children die before reaching their fifth birthday.

There are still countries like Sierra Leone where governments are unable to provide free primary health care and where the presence of international non-government medical organisations is indispensable for saving lives.