MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH IN KENYA

HEALTH

INEQUALITY FOR MOTHERS AND

CHILDREN

Millennium Development Goal #4: Child Health

Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.

Millennium Development Goal #5:

Maternal Health Reduce by three quarters the maternal

mortality ratio.

The Millennium Development Goals

1990 99/1000 2000 111/1000 2009 74/1000

Assessment of Progress No progress!

Under 5 Mortality Rate

UNICEF, WHO, World Bank & UNDESA 2011

Maternal Mortality Ratio

1990 400/100,000 2000 490/100,000 2010 360/100,000 Assessment of Progress

Insufficient progress!

WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA & World Bank 2012.

189,000 children under five die each year in

Kenya

Neonatal Causes

31% of Under 5 mortality

Source: World Health Statistics 2011, WHO

189,000 children under five die each year in

Kenya

Diarrhea 20%

38,802

Source: World Health Statistics 2011, WHO

189,000 children under five die each year in

Kenya

Pneumonia 16%

30,406

Diarrhea 20% 38,802

Source: World Health Statistics 2011, WHO

189,000 children under five die each year in

Kenya

Pneumonia 16% 30,406

Diarrhea

20% Malaria 11% 20,666

Source: World Health Statistics 2011, WHO

189,000 children under five die each year in

Kenya

Pneumonia 16% 30,406

Diarrhea

20% Malaria

11% }

malnutrition

lack of basic health-care

lack of clean water/sanitation

skilled

Attendants

13%

Solutions are simple, affordable, doable

breast-

Feeding 13%

Solutions are simple, affordable, doable

skilled

attendants

bed nets

7%

Solutions are simple, affordable, doable

breast-

feeding

skilled

attendants

water &

sanitation 3%

Solutions are simple, affordable, doable

breast-

feeding

skilled

attendants

immuniz-

Ations 7%

Solutions are simple, affordable, doable

bed nets

breast-

feeding

skilled

attendants

water &

sanitation

Nutrition 20%

Solutions are simple, affordable, doable

immuniz-

Ations 7% bed nets

7%

breast-

Feeding 13%

skilled

Attendants

13%

water &

sanitation 3%

Source: WHO 2004

Promoting and protecting healthy mothers and children

HEALTH RICH

-Best Health Education

- Awareness

-Prevention

-Treatment

HEALTH POOR

-Poor Health Education

- Awareness

-Prevention

-Treatment

Promoting and protecting healthy mothers and children

Kenya Achievements in Closing the Gap

Promoting and protecting healthy mothers and children

MDG 4

2015

Target

29

Source: Levels and Trends in Child Mortality, UN-IGME Report 2012 _ _ _ _ U5MR _______ NMR

0

25

50

75

100

125

150

1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010

U5MR NNMR

If recent trends continue

To achieve MDG

Promoting and protecting healthy mothers and children

Progress towards MDG4 in WHO African

Region

13 countries are on track

24 countries have made insufficient progress

9 countries have made no progress

2006 2011

5 countries were on track

17 countries had made insufficient progress

24 countries had made no progress

Source: UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UNDESA. Levels and Trends in Child Mortality: Report 2012 -

Estimates Developed by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, New

York, UNICEF 2012

Source: United Nations Children’s Fund, Progress for Children: a world fit for

children statistical review, Number 6, UNICEF, New York, December 2007

Change happens when barriers are removed

1) We don’t need new medicines 2) We don’t need new promises 3) We just need the will to make it

happen

How to close the gap

Change happens when barriers are removed

1) Political will 2) Promotion of High Impact

Interventions 3) Data collection systems 4) Post 2015 development agenda 5) Efforts to Families in real need

Promoting and protecting healthy mothers and children

World Vision’s Contribution W

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Development

Emergency

Advocacy

Child Well Being Aspirations

• Enjoy good health

• Educated for life

• Experience God’s love

and from neighbors

• Cared for, protected and

participating

Kenya

Boys and Girls;

Promoting and protecting healthy mothers and children

Kenya

Maternal Newborn Child Health (MNCH)

Malaria

Nutrition

HIV/AIDS

Delivery Mode – Community Strategy

* Budget: USD 17,304,789 FY 12 (KES 1.5Billion)

WVK Health Programming

Promoting and protecting healthy mothers and children

“Count Me In –

I Want Children to Survive 5!”