Child Mortality

Trevor
30/09/2012

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/png-child-mortality-on-rise-20120929-26skf.html

 

September 2012
In PNG more than five women die every day during childbirth. By 1982, according to Charles Darwin University, most villages were within a two-hour walk of health care so the child mortality rate dropped from 20 per cent in 1960 to 11 per cent. But in the last 30 years this rate has started to climb again.

58 out of every 1000 PNG children will die before reaching school age, compared with five in Australia. The children die from preventable illness such as diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia. They also die of measles - when a $1 vaccine could have protected them.

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