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Original Post Date: 2008-03-14 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: JoAn
Submitted by Adriana Stuijt:
JOHANNESBURG, 13 March 2008 – Mothers and children in South Africa are dying in alarming numbers these days — much worse than they were during apartheid — in fact they are dying at the rate of 260 children and their moms each day.
Far from being on track to meet the so-named Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing child mortality by two-thirds, the South African government is among only a dozen worldwide where child deaths are actually rising.
Picture: SA child dying of malnutrition in hospital, photographed by IRIN news agency: 75,000 SA children now die before their 5th birthday. 
URL: http://www.irinnews.org/images/20065190.JPG<b…br>
In 2000, South Africa committed itself to eight of these millennium-development goals set by the United Nations – one of which included reducing child and maternal mortality and reversing the spread of AIDS by 2015.
None of these goals are being reached: in SA, every year 20,000 babies are now stillborn and another 22,000 die within the first month of their lives each year.
In total, at least 75,000 children die before their fifth birthday, while 1,600 mothers die due to pregnancy or childbirth complications.
This was noted in the report “Every Death Counts’, a joint report with the SA health department, the Medical Research Council and the University of Pretoria medical faculty.
The report notes that more than one-third of these deaths are AIDS-related.
Countries with similar gross national incomes such as Brazil and Mexico, are meanwhile well on track to meet their goals, South Africa is not.
Other mother-and-child death-factors in SA:
– poor quality of care during childbirth,
– not enough or poorly-trained nurses, doctors and midwives;
– failure to prevent/treat childhood infections such as diarrhoea and pneumonia.
It must also be noted that during apartheid, such shockingly-high death rates and indeed, starvation did not occur among mothers and children – indeed these child-survival rates in SA then were on a par for those in Western countries such as Spain and Italy.
Importantly, SA children these days are also literally starving to death, with their mothers often too poor to afford daily meals, due to the soaring staple-food prices. This was directly caused by the SA regime’s deliberate destruction of its own commercial agricultural sector, meaning that the regime now needs to import massive quantities of grain at hugely inflated prices which millions of the poorest consumers cannot afford. There’s a growing shortage of affordable foods in SA, with poor families now spending more than 80% of their monthly incomes on food.
The authors estimated that at least 40,200 babies and children could be saved every year if government policies and programmes already in place were better implemented and were reaching the entire population.
In more than half the deaths, the authors identified “modifiable factors”, such as lapses in both the coverage and quality of care mothers and children received at health facilities.
At least 260 mothers, babies and children die every day in South Africa.
Strangely — the Tuberculosis co-infection factor is not mentioned in this report:
– Yet South Africa is also battling an out-of-control epidemic of a particularly fast-killing form of TB-coinfection with AIDS — Drug-resistant Tuberculosis — and which now is the leading cause of deaths among all South Africans, according to other statistics of the SA Medical Research Council and Medisines Sans Frontiers.
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Source: http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=77274