Progress for Children (No. 5)
Unsafe water and lack of sanitation and adequate hygiene contribute to the leading killers of children under five, including diarrhoeal diseases, pneumonia and undernutrition, and have implications for whether children - especially girls - attend school. Thus achieving Millennium Development Goal 7, and its 2015 targets of reducing by half the…, Get the latest data, research and analysis on the issues affecting children around the world, Browse all UNICEF publications, Discover our latest reports and explore by topic. September 2006, PROGRESSFOR CHILDRENA REPORT CARD ON WATER AND SANITATION NUMBER 5, SEPTEMBER 2006 CONTENTS 1 Foreword WATER, SANITATION AND THE MDGs 2 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF A CHILD SURVIVAL STRATEGY 12 West/Central Africa INCREASING NUMBERS WITH NO ACCESS 14 Eastern/Southern Africa SLOW PROGRESS AMID EMERGENCIES 16 Middle East/North…