Translation of "Mortalité centrale " (French → English) :

Tackling child injury must be a central part of all initiatives to improve the situation of child mortality and morbidity and the general well-being of children.

73. Asks the Commission, in particular, to step up its reproductive health programmes in the TACIS area as the situation is increasingly worrying and the countries concerned do not have the means to meet educational and supply needs, which results in a sharp increase of HIV/AIDS transmission (1.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe/Central Asia), an extremely high rate of abortions (3.6 abortions per lifetime per woman), poor-quality contraceptive methods and a high infant mortality rate (up to 74 per 1000 compared t ...[+++]o 5 per 1000 in France);

In Central and Eastern Europe, abortion is one of the leading causes in maternal morbidity.

- project entitled "Child survival in Central America". The aim here is to improve infant and maternity health policies in Central America, infant mortality being particularly high in the region.

This programme, cofinanced with France, involves a series of training and experience exchange schemes (regional and national) and preinvestment schemes (consultansy services, studies, surveys and detailed analyses) centred on the issue of food security in the region (i.e. in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama). The aim is to establish a regional framework for a food security policy and to identify concrete schemes to achieve this result in areas such as information, production , marketing, credit and research. - project entitled "Child survival in Central America". The aim here is to improve infant and mat ...[+++]ernity health policies in Central America, infant motality being particularly high in the region. The project, which the Community and Italy are cofinancing in roughly equal shares, will cost some 31 million dollars and be implemented with technical assistance from UNICEF. It consists essentially of training/information schemes, operating at all levels (advisory and programming staff, field managers and target population groups), and making available the necessary resources (medical equipment, medicines, transport equipment and vehicles).

This has meant that Canada has been recognized worldwide for its central role in the success of programs to supplement vitamin A, and for its role in the significant reductions in child mortality this supplementation has brought.