Progress for Children
No 5: Water and Sanitation Unsafe water and lack of sanitation and adequate hygiene contribute to the leading killers of children under five, including diarrhoeal diseases, pneumonia and undernutrition, and have implications for whether children - especially girls - attend school. This issue of Progress for Children reports on whether the world is on course to reach MDG 7, and where efforts are falling short. Read
No 4: Nutrition This Report highlights the world's performance in improving nutrition in young children, a crucial step towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Undernutrition contributes to the deaths of about 5.6 million children under five in the developing world each year. It can lead to poor school performance and dropout, and it perpetuates a generational cycle of poverty. Read
No 3: Immunisation Immunisation does not simply raise the chances that children will resist disease: it virtually guarantees that they will. But millions of children remain unimmunised, and each year 1.4 million children under five die from diseases that are entirely preventable. This volume of Progress for Children reports on immunisation, a key to the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality. Read
No 2: Gender Parity and Primary Education Girls’ education has been expanding all over the world, but not fast enough to ensure a basic education for millions of children still out of school or to ensure the progress of countries that lag behind. This report highlights where countries stand in terms of their commitment to Millennium Development Goal 2: to eliminate gender disparity in education by 2005. Read
No 1: Child Survival The Report addresses the child survival Millennium Development Goal, graphically depicting the world's advances in the lead up to 2015. It states that despite global gains in child survival since 1990, significant discrepancies remain within and across countries and regions and 11 million children still die needlessly each year. Read
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