This chapter reviews the impact of HIV/AIDS on the health sector and on the health status of children in 40 developing countries with medium-high HIV prevalence rates. The study finds that HIV/AIDS has (i) generated a substantial increase in the overall burden of disease, (ii) crowded out the health resources assigned to the care of traditional sicknesses, (iii) directed most of the additional ...

Those interested in child survival frequently cite and follow the under-five mortality rate. While a useful measure, the under-five mortality rate lumps together neonatal and post-neonatal mortality with deaths in the 1-4 year period. Unfortunately, this hampers public health decision making about the most appropriate child survival strategies as children survive beyond their first year of life.

Children and maternal health are the supreme assets of a nation. Because mothers reproductive or fertile women children future Therefore, both play vital role for The increase in economic productivity depends upon residents any area. As we know that 1980s, social development indicators were included indicators. indicator includes health, education, sanitation, hygiene, etc.; which education dev...

BACKGROUND Certain population groups have been rendered vulnerable in Chad because of displacement of more than 200,000 people over the last three years as a result of mass violence against civilians in the east of the country. The objective of the study was to assess mortality and nutritional patterns among displaced and non-displaced population living in camps, villages and a town in the Oudd...

BACKGROUND The under-five mortality rate (the probability of dying between birth and age 5 y, also denoted in the literature as U5MR and (5)q(0)) is a key indicator of child health, but it conceals important information about how this mortality is distributed by age. One important distinction is what amount of the under-five mortality occurs below age 1 y ((1)q(0)) versus at age 1 y and above (...