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HEALTH
Child health and survival: lessons from Eritrea
The country has one of the lowest child mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa
19 January 2022
By: Fikrejesus Amahazion
https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazi ... ns-eritrea
Women are encouraged to visit healthcare facilities during pregnancy and delivery. Photo supplied
A positive story is emerging from Eritrea—a young, developing country that is on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goal on child mortality by 2030. Child mortality rate is defined as the probability of a child dying before age five.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development goal 3.2 targets a reduction in neonatal mortality to at least 12 per 1,000 live births and 25 or fewer per 1,000 live births for children under- 5.
With a population of 3.5 million, Eritrea has significantly reduced child deaths since it gained independence in 1993. Over almost three decades, the country’s child mortality rate has gone from 130 per 1,000 live births in 1993 to 39 per 1,000 live births by 2020.
Eritrea’s child mortality rate is one of the lowest in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), although that figure remains slightly above the global average of 37 per 1,000 live births as of 2020. Still, the country’s performance is better than the SSA average, which is 73 deaths per 1,000 births.
In fact, more than half of all child deaths globally in 2020 occurred in SSA, according to estimates by the UN Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME).
Several factors account for Eritrea’s success, including sustained high-level political commitment. For example, the first international convention ratified by the Eritrean government post-independence was the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, reflecting the country’s priority on children’s health, wellbeing, and development.
To strengthen the national health system, the government is strengthening health infrastructure, leading to improvements in access, coverage, and quality of services, especially in poor, remote and marginalized communities.
There are currently about 350 health facilities in the country, including hospitals, health centers, clinics, and health stations, a marked improvement considering that there were 93 such facilities at independence. As well, the number of doctors, nurses and other health professionals continues to increase.
Approximately 80 per cent of the population now lives within 10km of a healthcare facility, and that includes nearly 98 per cent of pregnant women who now have access to routine ante- and post-natal care. For example, in 1991, the percentage of pregnant women who made at least one ANC visit was about 19 per cent. In addition, the percentage of deliveries by skilled birth attendants has also risen, climbing from about only six per cent in 1991 to 71 per cent in 2019.
Another strategy employed by Eritrea’s Ministry of Health is robust public campaigns to encourage women to visit healthcare facilities during pregnancy and delivery, promote adoption of basic interventions such as breastfeeding and vitamin-A supplementation, and provide families who reside in mosquito-endemic areas with insecticide-treated mosquito nets to prevent malaria.
Eritrea’s road network that was 4930 km in 1991 is currently about 15,000 km, connecting over 85 per cent of cities and villages.
With a population of 3.5 million, Eritrea has significantly reduced child deaths.
Also, above 80 per cent of citizens have access to safe water because of expansion in water, sanitation, and hygiene services, which is a significant jump from 1991 when only a mere 13 percent of the country’s population had access to clean and safe water
What is more, Minister for Land and Water Resources Tesfai Ghebreslassie says that
These facilities have contributed greatly to reducing the prevalence and spread of an array of serious diseases that thrive in contaminated water sources or unimproved sanitation conditions, and ultimately played a positive role in improving children’s general health and reducing child mortality.more than 54 per cent of Eritrean communities have achieved open defecation-free status, while more than 50 per cent of schools and health facilities have water, sanitation and hygiene services.
Central to its strategy to reduce child mortality is a national immunization program, which is helping to tackle preventable diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, and smallpox.
The national immunization schedule today includes 12 different vaccines, whereas at independence it was only six, and according to UNICEF, the national coverage rate, which hovered at only 10 per cent at independence, now stands above 95 per cent - making it one of the highest in SSA.
Notably, during a working visit to Eritrea in late 2021, Mohammed Malick Fall, UNICEF Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, explained that he was,
before going on to note that there,struck by the level of immunization [of children],
Lastly, Eritrea’s advances in women’s education have led to increased enrollments, and literacy among girls aged 15-24 is now above 90%.are many advanced countries that have a hard time reaching [those levels].
Child mortality experts maintain that women with more education have fewer children and make better health decisions, including prenatal care, basic hygiene, nutrition, and immunization—vital to reducing the leading causes of deaths in young children.
In 2020 alone, IGME reports that approximately 7.2 million children, adolescents and youth died mostly of preventable or treatable causes globally.
In sum, while Eritrea still has some distance to cover to meet SDG child mortality reduction targets, the country’s performance so far in the sector indicates it is on the right path.
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You have had 30 years to transform Eritrean economy and you can summarize your achievement in two words ማርሻ እንዴትሮ
Appraisal of Isaias & Co's 30 yrs Management of Eritrean Economy - by Isaias
Appraisal of Isaias & Co's 30 yrs Management of Eritrean Economy - by the youth
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Top 10 Eritrean characteristics:
1. Generous!
2. Loving!
3. Truthful!
4. Courageous!
5. Patient!
6. Hard working!
7. Doesn't want, what doesn't belong to him!
8. Helps the needy!
9. Steadfast!
10. Proud of his Eritrean-ness!
Shall I add, one bonus?
Respects, those who respect him!
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This little twàt doesn't represent any eritrean "youth", but himself. He would pee his pants, infront of YPFDJ!
Has he even learnt to wipe his own ars yet, or does he have an ugume like you to do it for him?
PS: we're waiting to learn about economics, from ugumistan.
Starvin' Marvin's birthplace.
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Has he even learnt to wipe his own ars yet, or does he have an ugume like you to do it for him?
PS: we're waiting to learn about economics, from ugumistan.
Starvin' Marvin's birthplace.
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sarcasm wrote: ↑20 Jan 2022, 09:33You have had 30 years to transform Eritrean economy and you can summarize your achievement in two words ማርሻ እንዴትሮ
Appraisal of Isaias & Co's 30 yrs Management of Eritrean Economy - by Isaias
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Asmara, this day today!
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I caught this guy staring at me, in Semienawi Bahri
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Zmeselo,
Thanks for the wonderful news that you had been posting! I love the way you are psychologically and methodologically killing the green-eyed evil ሓሳዳት ምድረ ዑጉም። Please keep it up!
Thanks for the wonderful news that you had been posting! I love the way you are psychologically and methodologically killing the green-eyed evil ሓሳዳት ምድረ ዑጉም። Please keep it up!
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My silver medal at the Worlds in Leuven turned out to be a turning point for my country, but also for my career. From now on, the expectations will be high and the motivation too. This season, the big goal will be the Giro d’Italia, my very first Grand Tour. I have a very good race program with several monuments in particular, and I will take advantage of Alexander Kristoff's experience in a race like Milan-San Remo, which he has won in the past. I have felt at home since I joined Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux and the atmosphere, both friendly and professional, allows me to progress serenely. I'm ready, for my debut at the Mallorca Challenge.
Biniam Girmay
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Ready for 2022!
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Tnx for the encouragement, brother Temt. Absolutely, bro. I'll definitely, continue!
Here's the real junta nightmare, tho. They just can't stop, talking about him.
Take the man who is destroying our dreams, out of the game.
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The Duke, is on