One of the United Nation’s goals is to better child health in the world. This goal is also known as the goal to reduce child mortality. This is the target for the goal. “Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.” The death rate is a problem because children should not be dying under the age of 5. People should get to live a long and happy life. Many countries have achieved this goal and the death rate has dropped. In other countries such as Sub—Saharan Africa and Southern Asia the goal has not yet been made. These two countries also make up for 82% of the Global under-five child deaths. Although the goal is being met in some regions the progress of other regions is too slow for the goal to be complete by 2015. The United Nations states that “Despite population growth, the number of under-five deaths worldwide fell from more than 12 million in 1990 to 7.6 million in 2010.” Some of the causes of these child deaths are poverty and mothers not being educated. A diagram showed that children whose mothers have little to no education die at a younger age than children whose mothers have a good education. A child born into poverty also has a less chance of living past 5 years old. I think that it’s awful to have children dying so young. In my opinion I think that this is a great goal to have.
http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Resources/Static/Products/Progress2012/English2012.pdf#page=28
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Development_Goals
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