Bangladesh on track to achieve MDG on child survival
Bss, Dhaka
Bangladesh is very much ‘on track’ to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 on child survival, but is far away from the target of reducing maternal deaths — the goal 5 of the United Nations set for 2015, according to a report available here yesterday.
The 2008 report titled ‘Tracking Progress in Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival’ was released at the 118th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in South Africa on Thursday.
The mortality rate of children under five years has come down at 69 per thousand in 2006 from 149 in 1990, marking a 4.8 percent average annual reduction, which is slightly over the final target to achieve the mortality at 50 by 2015.
How much of this achievement is due to Grameen, we have to ask ourselves…
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