Infant mortality rates remain high.

Nonetheless, the mortality rates remain high.

Maternal mortality in Pakistan remains high.

Maternal mortality, though declining, was still high.

Ethiopia has high infant and maternal mortality rate.

Other causes that contribute indirectly to high mortality are

Malawi has a low life expectancy and high infant mortality.

However, the Committee is very concerned that despite decreases in the infant mortality rate, under five mortality rate and maternal mortality rate, these rates remain very high.

The high rates of mortality are found in the agricultural areas.

There is probably high mortality, especially for young males, during this time.

Maternal mortality was still excessively high in her part of the world.

Infant mortality rates are high, and life expectancy at birth is 50.03 years.

Maternal and child health, including the reduction of mortality, was a high priority.

More must be done to ensure that births were attended by qualified personnel because infant mortality was extremely high, and so was maternal mortality.

The very high rate of teen pregnancy has resulted in an equally high maternal mortality rate among young women.

(a) Comprehensive package in 60 countries with high child mortality and low WASH coverage

In 2004, UNICEF supported vitamin A supplementation programmes in 89 countries with high child mortality.

These living conditions can, in turn, breed disease, causing high rates of infant and child mortality.

Other delegations expressed appreciation for the focus on health and nutrition, given high infant mortality rates.

Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who live in areas with low maternal mortality.

Indeed, the impact of intelligence on mortality rivals well known risk factors for illness and death, such as high blood pressure, being overweight, high blood glucose, and high cholesterol.

Finally, poor families have many children as a kind of insurance policy against high child mortality rates.

Because of high HIV mortality rates in Africa, this scenario of property grabbing has become increasingly widespread.

Even within countries where death rates are declining, there are areas and populations where mortality remains high.

Compared with non indigenous women, indigenous women experienced high rates of mortality in every age group.8

There are very few young infants because they die high mortality rate and there's very few old people.

However, in other regions child mortality remains high, with 81 deaths of children under five for every 1,000 live births, where mortality was reduced by only 20 per cent (see figure below).

The index of maternal mortality is extremely high, and it is estimated at 1500 for 100 000 living births.

High fertility, which is generally found among poor women and teenagers, accentuates the phenomenon of maternal morbidity and mortality.

All these factors contribute to high levels of fertility, morbidity and mortality, as well as to low economic productivity.

Reducing mortality, especially maternal and child mortality

Since 1997, the groups Women and Children have been defined as vulnerable ones, mostly due to their high morbid mortality.

The world today encompasses, therefore, countries at all stages of the demographic transition, that is to say, the transition from a regime of high fertility and high mortality producing low population growth to one where both fertility and mortality are low and produce again low rates of population change.

The rapid population growth in these periods was due to high birth rates at a time when mortality started to diminish.

Ms. Tavares da Silva asked whether any steps were being taken to address the high rates of maternal and infant mortality.

Programmes to address major health challenges in Africa such as the scourge of HIV AIDS and high maternal mortality are underfunded.

UNICEF will also employ a situation based approach, meaning that the high impact child survival interventions will have as a primary target those countries, or geographical areas within countries, with high to very high child mortality rates.

Mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) is a coronavirus that causes an epidemic murine illness with high mortality, especially among colonies of laboratory mice.

Nevertheless, it remains concerned at the regional disparities in the health service provisions as well as the still high maternal mortality rates.

Infant mortality

Infant Mortality

Owing to the exceptionally high maternal mortality rates in Afghanistan, UNICEF recently declared a state of acute emergency for the women and children.

In these countries, early childbearing and a lack of skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth contribute to extremely high levels of maternal mortality.

Indeed, the impact of intelligence on mortality rivals well known risk factors for illness and death, such as high blood pressure, being overweight, high blood glucose, and high cholesterol. Its effect is almost as important as that of smoking.

Neonatal mortality and postneonatal mortality (covering the remaining 11 months of the first year of life) are reflected in the Infant Mortality Rate.