Million flickering embers : a multidisciplinary analysis of child mortality in Uganda

• Main Author: Aduba, Nkeiruka Adaobi
• Other Authors: Tindifa, Samuel B. (Sam)
• Language: en
• Published: University of Pretoria 2012
• Subjects: UCTD; Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); Children > Mortality > Uganda > Statistics; Newborn infants > Uganda > Death
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/18617; Aduba, NA 2012/04/24, Million flickering embers : a multidisciplinary analysis of child mortality in Uganda, LLM Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/18617>

The issue of child mortality is currently under international spotlight, as the rates of neonatal and under five mortality are sobering. „About 29,000 children under the age of five [approximately] 21 each minute die every day, mainly from preventable causes‟. Although there has been a decline in global child mortality rates since 1990, sub-Saharan Africa still has the highest rates, where one child in eight dies before age five. As contained in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2010 report, in 2008, sub-Saharan Africa bore half of the 8.8 million deaths in children under five. === Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa))--University of Pretoria, 2012. === http://www.chr.up.ac.za/ === nf2012 === Centre for Human Rights === LLM