Cambodia reduces infant mortality

31 March 2015
VOA Khmer
Government / Government services / Human rights / Maternal and child health / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Health / Priority health concerns / Public health / Social development
Council for Agricultural and Rural Development / Ke Sovannaroth / National Maternal and Child Health Center / UN Millennium Development Goals (UNMDG)

Cambodia is not meeting many of its UN Millennium Development Goals, which are coming due this year, but it has made progress in the reduction of infant mortality.

Currently, 28 of 1,000 children born in Cambodia die before reaching the age of one. That number is down from 95 per thousand in 2000. Another 35 of 1,000 children die before the age of 5, down from 124 in 2000. And while those numbers are not great, they are an improvement beyond expectation. …

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