Health Report - Ethiopia Praised for 67 Percent Drop in Child Deaths

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The United Nations Children's Fund is praising Ethiopia reaching one of the Millennium Development Goals. UNICEF say Ethiopia has reduced child deaths by more two-thirds-. Between 1990 and 2012, Ethiopia reported a percent drop in the number of children dying the age of five. Ethiopia's minister of health, Admasu, says his country has committed to end preventable child deaths in a generation by 2035. , pneumonia and malaria are the leading causes of among children in Ethiopia. In 1990, the country's rate for children under five was one of highest in the world. The death rate has from 204 deaths for every 1,000 births to deaths per thousand births. Hundreds of thousands of children who might have died in earlier years reach their fifth birthday. Ethiopia is one of African countries to have reached a Millennium Development . The other three are Liberia, Malawi and Tanzania. reason for Ethiopia's success is its Health Extension . The program employed 38,000 people to bring health services to a large part of the rural . Peter Salama is UNICEF's representative for Ethiopia. He Ethiopia's plan can serve as an example. He delegations from Togo, Guinea and Namibia have come study the Health Extension Program. The United Nations the Millennium Development Goals in 2001. The goals meant to get countries to pay more attention issues such as fighting extreme poverty. Progress on goal of reducing child deaths is slow in countries. Only 13 of 61 countries are in position to meet it. For VOA Learning English, Carolyn Presutti.

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