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Main causes of child deaths in the World Health Organisation’s Africa Region, 2000

World Health Organisation, World Health Statistics 2007, p31

85% of child deaths occur in children under the age of five. In 2006 about 9.7 million children under the age of five died, with 70% of those deaths occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa and India.

The majority of child deaths are the result of six diseases and conditions, including:

• Neonatal diseases
• Pneumonia
• Malaria
• Diarrhoeal diseases
• Measles
• AIDS.

Four million babies die in the first four weeks of life and a similar number are stillborn.

• Up to 50% of neonatal deaths occur in the first 24 hours of life and three largely preventable causes account for 86% of neonatal deaths: asphyxia, prematurity and infections (including sepsis/pneumonia, tetanus and diarrhoea).

Sector Landscape Analysis

Further insight into this impact area can be gained from the Sector Landscape Analysis .