An estimated five million children under the age of five died in 2021, the United Nations said Tuesday, urging health care investment in underserved communities around the globe to avoid this “immense, intolerable and mostly preventable loss of life.”
UNITED NATIONS, United States – “Every day, far too many parents are facing the trauma of losing their children, sometimes even before their first breath,” said Vidhya Ganesh, a specialist with the UN’s children’s agency, UNICEF.
Some 2.3 million deaths in 2021 occurred in the children’s first month, mostly due to being premature or from complications related to childbirth. After a child’s first month, infectious diseases, such as pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria become the biggest threats. With vaccination campaigns disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, immunization rates among children dropped by two million in 2021 compared to 2020, and by six million compared to 2019, an ominous sign for future child mortality.The global under-five mortality rate fell 50 percent since 2000, while mortality rates in older children and youth dropped 36 per cent, and the stillbirth rate decreased by 35 per cent.
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