Infant mortality rates remain high.

Nonetheless, the mortality rates remain high.

The high rates of mortality are found in the agricultural areas.

However, the Committee is very concerned that despite decreases in the infant mortality rate, under five mortality rate and maternal mortality rate, these rates remain very high.

These living conditions can, in turn, breed disease, causing high rates of infant and child mortality.

Other delegations expressed appreciation for the focus on health and nutrition, given high infant mortality rates.

Because of high HIV mortality rates in Africa, this scenario of property grabbing has become increasingly widespread.

Compared with non indigenous women, indigenous women experienced high rates of mortality in every age group.8

Most frequent mortality causes and rates

Mortality Rates and Causes of Death

The rapid population growth in these periods was due to high birth rates at a time when mortality started to diminish.

Ms. Tavares da Silva asked whether any steps were being taken to address the high rates of maternal and infant mortality.

Child mortality and malnutrition rates likewise improved.

What were the rates of maternal mortality?

Nevertheless, it remains concerned at the regional disparities in the health service provisions as well as the still high maternal mortality rates.

Owing to the exceptionally high maternal mortality rates in Afghanistan, UNICEF recently declared a state of acute emergency for the women and children.

And these are not trivial differences in mortality rates.

Millennium Development Goal rates for child mortality is fully possible.

Poor families lack access to contraception and family planning. Finally, poor families have many children as a kind of insurance policy against high child mortality rates.

UNICEF will also employ a situation based approach, meaning that the high impact child survival interventions will have as a primary target those countries, or geographical areas within countries, with high to very high child mortality rates.

The infant, under five and maternal mortality rates are all worsening.

Infant and maternal mortality rates are reportedly higher among the displaced.

The world today encompasses, therefore, countries at all stages of the demographic transition, that is to say, the transition from a regime of high fertility and high mortality producing low population growth to one where both fertility and mortality are low and produce again low rates of population change.

The lack of access can contribute to high rates of infant and maternal mortality, fertility and malnutrition, indicators that are closely associated with women's level of education.

In countries or areas with moderate to high mortality rates, UNICEF will support increased coverage of those interventions that simultaneously improve child survival, growth and development outcomes.

Of particular concern are the relatively high rates of teenage pregnancy and maternal mortality, which reflect a lack of access to health information and basic health services.

Those programmes have served to reduce both maternal and newborn mortality rates.

Common previously checked childhood diseases and mortality rates are on the increase.

Statistics on maternal mortality rates would be supplied to the Committee later.

High rates of morbidity and mortality are still common in many low income countries, especially those highly affected by infectious diseases such as HIV AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

Maternal mortality, though declining, was still high.

Effective coverage of interventions supporting Goals 4 and 5 is accelerated in countries and regions with high maternal and child mortality rates, with a particular focus on emergency situations.

Figure 5 Evolution of child mortality (1987 2002) (Rates per 1,000 live births)

Figure 6 Evolution of child mortality (1987 2002) (Rates per thousand live births)

His her right to necessary measures to reduce infant and child mortality rates.

The infant mortality rate was only 17 per 1,000 live births, and Sri Lanka had achieved the Goal for maternal mortality rates also.

Noting with grave concern the high mortality rates of over 80 per cent of livestock in the worst affected areas of the Sool and Sanaag plateau of Somalia and the high risk of starvation of Somali nomads,

He regrets, however, that infant and under five mortality rates remain high, largely as a result of preventable or treatable causes, such as acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis.

By the same date, to have reduced maternal mortality by three quarters, and under five child mortality by two thirds, of their current rates.

High vacancy rates

As well, steps had been taken to reduce the rates of maternal mortality and morbidity.

Other causes that contribute indirectly to high mortality are

Traveller (nomadic) women had a higher mortality rate, lower life expectancy and stillbirth and infant mortality rates nearly triple those of the population as a whole.

They had high, or very high, child mortality and family size, six to eight.

Expresses serious concern that, as a result of poor crop production, the high mortality rate of livestock in the worst affected areas of Somalia, economic stress, chronic food insecurity and poor health conditions, the Somali people, particularly internally displaced persons, continue to suffer from a high rate of malnutrition, which is associated with high mortality rates and, more generally, from a long running humanitarian crisis