According to UNICEF, more children worldwide are surviving than ever before. Since 2000, the death rate among children under five has fallen by 51 percent. In 2022, the number of children dying before their fifth birthday from preventable causes reached an all-time low of an estimated 4.9 million children. In 1990 there were 12.5 million.
According to the data, most of these deaths in 2022 occurred in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
They are mainly due to preventable causes or treatable diseases, such as premature birth, complications during birth, pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria.
Basic medical care saves lives
“Many lives could have been saved if the children had had better access to basic medical care,” UNICEF said in a statement. This included measures such as vaccinations, qualified health personnel and the diagnosis and treatment of childhood diseases.
“It is critical to improve access to quality health care for every woman and child, including in crisis situations and in remote areas,” World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in the statement. “The place where a child is born should not determine whether he or she will live or die.”
Source: Krone
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