Child mortality in South Africa: Is the Sustainable Development Goal (3.2) target achievable with current efforts?
Date
2018Author
Doherty, Tanya
Kroon, Max
Rhoda, Natasha
Sanders, David
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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.