UNICEF: Maternal and child health improves in Rwanda

KIGALI, Rwanda, 29 September 2008 Rwanda recently celebrated its first-ever week to promote the health and well-being of its women and children.

This nation is already on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of reducing young mortality by two-thirds by 2015. Its first Mother and Child Health Week was organized by the government with support from UNICEF and other partners to ensure continued progress on child survival.

Some 1.3 million children under the age of five, and over 400,000 women, will receive critical health interventions such as immunization, de-worming and nutritional support in all 30 districts of the country, UNICEFs Representative in Rwanda Dr. Joseph Foumbi said before the health week began.

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