In Pakistan there are approximately 170 million. Children under 5 years make up 13.8% of the population, while 2.7% of it is are children under 1 year of age.
Considering these estimates, it is shocking that:
- Under 5 mortality rate is 94 per thousand live births; infant mortality rate is 78 per thousand live births and neonatal mortality rate is 54 per thousand births.
- More than 430,000 children under five and 298,000 neonatal deaths occur every year in Pakistan.
- 62 children under the age of 5 die every hour, which means one child a minute.
- On average in Pakistan, the child mortality is reduced every year by by 1.8% - it should be reduced by two-thirds or 9% by 2015.
How we’re changing this for EVERY ONE in Pakistan?
In Pakistan, we have rolled out this global push in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. We have a vision of a Pakistan where no child dies from preventable causes and where people will not tolerate high levels of child deaths.
Our joint Campaign aims to help ensure that government keeps its promise and saves millions of children's lives. We will:
- Significantly increase our commitment to programmes in newborn and child health and nutrition.
- Play a leading role in ensuring that the government meets its responsibilities to children.
- Build a mass movement of people to help secure this change.
What will change for EVERY ONE?
By 2015 we will have had a significant impact on the goal of meeting Millennium Development Goal 4 through combined efforts.
- Paramount increase in the availability and access to maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition (MNCHN) services.
- Marked improvement in the quality of MNCHN services and practices across the spectrum.
- Strengthened and more accountable health systems will be in place at national and district levels to maintain increased coverage and quality
- Five million people will have increased knowledge and awareness of the MNCHN issues that affect their children and families.