This week child survival is under critical review in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during the African Leadership for Child Survival – A Promise Renewed summit. This meeting, held at the African Union headquarters and convened by the Ethiopian government along with UNICEF and USAID brought together African Ministers of Health to enter into discussions about markedly improving child survival rates. The summit ends Friday.
Between 1990-2011 child mortality has decreased 39% in sub-Saharan Africa. According to UNICEF, 1 in 8 children in sub-Saharan Africa die before their fifth birthday from five leading causes: pneumonia, pre-term birth complications, diarrhea, intrapartum-related complications, newborn infection, and malaria.
Key tweets and infographics are emerging from the summit at the #promise4children hashtag.
Many #African countries are w/in reach of MDG 4: red <5 mortality by 2/3. African ldrs working tog: ow.ly/gROYr #Promise4Children
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USAID Global Health (@USAIDGH) January 17, 2013#Pneumonia is leading killer of children <5. African leaders meet now to accelerate child survival ow.ly/gSsHe #Promise4children
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(@USAID) January 17, 2013USAID Administrator Dr. Raj Shah addressed the summit via video:
Ethiopia stands 4th in reducing under 5 mortality rate in Africa
ruturl.com/dVB Read about child survival in Africa #Promise4Children
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UNICEF Ethiopia (@UNICEFEthiopia) January 17, 201324 of 26 countries with under-five mortality rates above 100 deaths per 1,000 live births were in sub-Saharan Africa. #Promise4Children
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UNICEF Ethiopia (@UNICEFEthiopia) January 17, 2013#Stunting. What is it and how do we prevent it? #Promise4Children #infographic uni.cf/NTK7az
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(@UNICEF) January 17, 2013
#Diarrhoea. Why it kills 800k under 5s each year and how we can hugely reduce this. #Promise4Children #infographic uni.cf/NTJOMN
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(@UNICEF) January 17, 2013
Some of the topics in discussion are community-based newborn care, reducing stunting to increase child survival and increasing skilled birth attendants to decrease newborn and child mortality.
For more information on child survival and child mortality rates visit www.apromiserenewed.org.
Photo: Jennifer James
Social Good Moms 
Fabulous information in this post Jennifer!
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Thank you, Nicole.
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I kept a copy of this email as the infographics are really good and I am sure they will come in use with future posts. The Child Survival Call to Action has been a big advocacy issue for RESULTS, a grassroots group I work with. I’ve been trying to incorporate some posts on this topic as well. 🙂
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Thank you for raising awareness about the right to life for all, a critical part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. #GiveProBono #Catchafire #MLKday (Yangbo Du and Vibha Chokhani)
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