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UNICEF present the new report “Progress for children”

On 10 December UNICEF published its new report “Progress for children: A world fit for children”. The report, the sixth in a series begun in 2004, provides an overview of progress and delays on the part of the international community in a number of crucial areas for the condition of children and supplies statistics concerning the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.
The launch took place on the day before the plenary session of the General Assembly of the United Nations which is expected to focus on the recommendations contained in the final document of the Special Session on children in 2002, entitled “A World Fit for Children'.

Progress recorded in the report includes: a fall in the number of children dying before the age of five, which, for the first time, has fallen to below 10 million, thanks to a series of advances in children’s health that could leave to even further reductions in the mortality rate for the under-5s, such as greater access to drinking water, an increase in the percentage of children being breast-fed by their mothers, the distribution of mosquito nets treated with pesticides, an increase in access to antiretroviral drugs to reduce the spread of HIV from mother to child, a big increase in the Vitamin A intake to reduce mortality rates from childhood diseases.

While significant progress has been made, it remains clear that there are also many gaps and delays, as, for example, in the very slow expansion of health care for the primary childhood diseases, the lack of basic health care services which, combined with precarious hygiene and the consumption of contaminated water, contributes to the death of some 1.5 million children every year; the high percentage of new HIV infections among young people, who are unaware of and ill-informed about the risks and methods of prevention.

December 2007

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