April 17, 2008

2015 targets: Was Africa ambitious? Living with AIDS # 347

International health experts and government representatives converge in Cape Town today for a three-day conference looking at improving maternal and child health care. But is Africa doing enough to save mothers and children from the risk of death?

Factors that influence child survival

The achievement of Millenium Development Goal 4 - that is, to prevent babies and children from dying ' is not possible if the other seven goals in the Millenium Declaration are not adequately addressed. Dr Phetsile Dlamini is the co-ordinator of the African Union programme in the national Department of Health.

The state of maternal & child mortality

Leading global health experts, policy makers and parliamentarians meet in Cape Town today for the Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn & Child Survival conference. Daisy Mafubelu, Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organisation's Family and Community Health Division, reports on the state of the world's maternal and child mortality.

SA bottom of the class in saving mothers and babies

South Africa is one of the 10 worst performing countries in reducing child deaths thus making progress towards reaching the fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which aims to reduce by two-thirds the death rate of children by 2015.

2015 targets: Was Africa ambitious? Living with AIDS # 347

Factors that influence child survival

The state of maternal & child mortality

SA bottom of the class in saving mothers and babies

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