The UN Childrens Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday the world would miss by 30 years the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of cutting child deaths by two-thirds in 2015 unless nations stepped up efforts to reduce mortality.
UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman told disease experts at an international conference in New Delhi that just seven of 60 nations with the highest under-five child mortality rate or the greatest number of child deaths were on target to reach the MDG goal set in 2000 and to be achieved by 2015.
UNICEF says 39 countries, including India, have made insufficient or no progress in reaching the goal and 14 have seen increases in under-five mortality rates, including Botswana, which is facing an AIDS crisis.
Kilde: www.worldbank.org
