Saturday, July 21, 2007

The goal of stopping children from dying

In the article "The goal of stopping children from dying" written by inter Press Service, it talks about the lack of health care facilites in Tanzania. They say there is mortality and it is because of the lack of knowledge of taking care of children. Also, they mention that lowering mortality is the fourth in eight milleniums which are the goals that the United Nation wants to achieve or develop.
In addition they say the experts and the observers of Tanzania say this goal will be achievedby the year of 2015. They say that under five deaths rose from an average of 137 per 1000 live births in 1992 to 1996 to 147 deaths per 1000 live births in 1995 to 1999.

Theybsay the Tanzania's official nation put the average under five mortality rate at 112 per 100 live births from 2000 to 2005 and they say the average infant mortality rate was 68 per 1000 live births in the same period. On the other hand they say the united nations children fund put the number of 165 per 1000 live births in the years of 2000 to 2003. Also, they say when people in a city called Rukwa want a medical service, they walk long distances, even for the children's service and delivery. And for theat the death rate for children under five was 175 per 1000 live births in 2005 and until 2006 it rate at 143 per 1000 live birhs. Also, they say the education in some ways is connected with reducing the mortality rates because education puts parents under pressure to get information about better nutrition and the knowledge about how to get care of their children.

On the other hand they talk about the poverty and say it gets worse in Africa. And they say the prevalence of HID/AIDS affects the child mortality directly by the transmission from mothers to their children and indirectly because there are negative results of maternall illness. The health care is very important now, especially since there are many strange diseases that have come to the world.

In the past people were dying because of regular diseases, for example, headache but now this is not even called a diseas because there are a lot of medical services. And in some regions in Africa they have a lack of medical service. It is one problem of many problems that the Tanzanian people deal with and it is a big problem especially for the government. And the poverty for sure affects them and it is considered one of the biggest problems in Africa.

First of all, the lack of health care is a very big problem, and it will affect the population in a negative way, because in Africa they happen to lose their children because there are no good health care facilities. And that will make people leave their countries. In addition, their government will be in a very embarrassed attitude that they will seek help from other countries.

Secondly, in some countries there is not that strong education, and due to that they suffer from the lack of medical hospital's success and mostly their abilites are weak they can not afford to cure all the people, and when some people get a big disease they surely will send them to other countries. If the country depends onother countries than then there will be emigration and the government will lose its control.

Third, when we look at a dying infant we will know there are many kinds of problems, not only the lack of the medical facilities. There is poverty, and due to that the inaft potentially will suffer a long time and they will get many diseases. Also, when the poverty stay a long time in a particular country, then the citizens will emigrate, because they want a better life for themselves and their children. When the emigration begins, the country may lose some of its citizens who have good ability to improve the country.

In conclusion, I think in many parts of Africa suffer from the poverty, at first, and then come all kinds of problems. If we notice some kinds of unknown disease begin there. These countries may have resources,but maybe their government can not do any thing for them, or they slowly improve their countries, but people there can not wait because all world moves quickly.


Reference:
Africa news,Inter press service, 2007, JUNE 25
Tanzania; The evasove goal of stopping children from dying

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