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UNICEF's goals for 2000 AD.


 Following the 1990 World Summit for Children, the annual report of UNICEF detailed progress to the Summit's goals it set for the year 2000. The targets are a 33% reduction in under-5 mortality, halving child malnutrition and maternal mortality rates, and 90% immunization coverage of major childhood diseases. Over 85 states are signed up with national programs to mobilize not only health services but to extend it to schools, media, religious leaders, and businesses. The maternal mortality rate of 1 in 20 in Africa compares with 1 in 3600 in North America; and under-5 mortality rates of 5 in 1000 in Sweden are compared with 300/1000 in Niger. 61 countries are still likely to double their population in the next 35 years, and millions of women have no access to birth control programs. Mental retardation caused by lack of iodine in the diet claims an estimated 6 million victims. There are also the familiar problems created by diarrhea, measles, and bottle feeding. On the other hand, the new UNICEF report, The Progress of Nations, demonstrates that in little more than 1 generation average real incomes have doubled; child death rates have halved; malnutrition has fallen by about 30% (only 1 or 2% of the world's children are affected by visible malnutrition); life expectancy has increased by about 33%; modern contraceptive use by couples has risen from less than 10% to over 50% since 1960; and average family size is declining in almost every country. In just a decade measles immunization coverage of the developing world's children has risen from 20% to 80% saving 3 million young lives a year and preventing 50 million other children from catching a nonfatal dose. Nevertheless, these gains are thwarted by the existence of millions of malnourished and uneducated children whose prospects for future employment are constrained by polio, blindness, deafness, and mental retardation.
