Child mortality in South Africa : is the Sustainable Development Goal (3.2) target achievable with current efforts?

To the Editor: The two articles by Bamford et al.[1,2] in the recent SAMJ Maternal and Child Health Supplement present trends in inpatient case fatality rates for diarrhoeal disease, pneumonia and severe acute malnutrition (SAM), and a review of under-5 mortality and cause of death using several sou...

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Published inSouth African medical journal Vol. 108; no. 10; p. 795
Main Authors Doherty, Tanya, Rhoda, Natasha, Kroon, Max, Sanders, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published South Africa Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG) 01.10.2018
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Summary:To the Editor: The two articles by Bamford et al.[1,2] in the recent SAMJ Maternal and Child Health Supplement present trends in inpatient case fatality rates for diarrhoeal disease, pneumonia and severe acute malnutrition (SAM), and a review of under-5 mortality and cause of death using several sources of nationally representative data. While these reviews provide evidence of some improvement, seemingly limited to the impact of prevention of mother-to-child transmission roll-out, we have some comments related to the interpretation of the data.
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ISSN:0256-9574
2078-5135
DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.2018.v108i10.13436