Child Deaths Found at Record Low (2/2)

UNICEF says progress in Asia, especially in China and India, has helped drive the worldwide reduction since nineteen ninety. Death rates have dropped sharply in Latin America and the Caribbean, former Soviet republics and countries in East Asia and the Pacific.

Some countries in sub-Saharan Africa have also made considerable gains. Malawi's under-five death rate dropped by twenty-nine percent between two thousand and two thousand four. Reductions of more than twenty percent were reported in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda and Tanzania as well.

In nineteen ninety, Asia had the most child deaths. Now, rates are highest in west and central Africa. Gains in child survival have fallen to the spread of H.I.V and AIDS. By two thousand fifteen, Africa south of the Sahara could have almost sixty percent of all deaths in children under five.

But UNICEF says Latin America and the Caribbean are on a path to reach a U.N. Millennium Development Goal. The goal is to reduce the death rate in children under five by two-thirds from nineteen ninety levels -- and to do that by two thousand fifteen.

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联合国儿童基金会（UNICEF）表示，1990年以来，亚洲，尤其是中国和印度的发展有助于带动全球死亡率的降低。拉丁美洲和加勒比地区、前苏联、以及东亚和太平洋的一些国家死亡率迅速降低。

撒哈拉以南的非洲国家同样成就显著。马拉维五岁以下儿童的死亡率在2000到2004年间下降了29%。据报道，埃塞俄比亚、莫桑比克、纳米比亚、尼日尔、卢旺达和坦桑尼亚也下降了20%。

1990年亚洲的儿童死亡人口数最多。现在是西非和中非最多。随着HIV和艾滋病的蔓延，（非洲国家在）增加儿童成活率方面所做的努力大部分白费了。到2015年，所有五岁以下儿童死亡人数中，非洲撒哈拉以南地区可能达到60%。

但是，UNICEF说拉美和加勒比地区正争取实现联合国新千年发展目标：五岁以下儿童死亡率在1990年的基础上降低2/3---2015年前达到。