Early Years
Children under-five make up 12 per cent of the population. Mortality rates for this age group plunged from 151 per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 61 per 1,000 live births in 2007. However, significant health and development challenges continue to threaten those children who are isolated from national services because of poverty.
- Disease
- High immunization coverage protects children from disease, yet infection and diarrhoea remain serious risks.
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- Injury
- As soon as children are mobile, drowning and other injuries become the main threat to their survival.
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- Nutrition
- Despite improvements in recent years, malnutrition continues to be an underlying cause of child death.
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- Early child development
- Parents and caregivers in Bangladesh lack the knowledge and resources to encourage early learning.
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