Child Mortality in Indonesia By Sandy Kaul Sean

Child Mortality in Indonesia By: Sandy Kaul, Sean O’Brien, Brandon Medina, Melissa Harkins, and Breajsha Burton

Number of Children out of 1000 Graph Year

Why Care? In the 1990’s, 91 out of 1000 children died In 2004, 38 out of 1000 children died The goal is 32 out of 1000 children Can we meet the goal?

Indonesia compared to the US 7 deaths out of 1000 in the us 38 out of 1000 children die in Indonesia

Lack of education/ economic opportunity for 18 mil Root Causes Poor public infrastructure Severe Poverty Child Mortality Disease

Causes of Child Mortality in Indonesia Diseases- kills 75% of Indonesian children Lack of vaccines Pneumonia Lack of medical care Poverty Child birth

OUR ACTION PLAN …. .

Targets Target 4. A -Reduce Child Mortality of under 5 -year-olds by 2/3. Target 4. B -Increase measles immunizations

Solutions in General Access to technology/medical supplies More educated doctors to save lives Make sure infants have proper nutrition Children receive immunizations Mosquito nets to prevent malaria Differentiate prices on medicines

5 Million More Project Makes cheaper medicine and sends it to Indonesia Goal: get 5 million more lives saved each year Educate midwifes and doctors Sent malaria nets over to Southeast Asia Makes land better food

Health Centre in Senegal Serves 10, 000 people from 35 villages Helps mothers give birth successfully Specializes in ailments Creates country-wide programs If Africa can do this, Indonesia can also.

UNICEF Brings physicians to the country Donate food to help children Internet games to generate food Familiarizing vaccines Trying to find vaccine to AIDS

UNICEF Success Story Because many diseases are preventable, UNICEF went to Borneo to give children vaccines Measles Polio In 2000, 733, 000 died from the measles In 2008, 164, 000 died

Percentage of Children immunized against measles

Benefitting other Countries Because the same diseases affect other countries, what we can do stop child mortality in Indonesia can be done to prevent it in other countries. Simples vaccinations Doctors Easier access to medical supplies

Accomplishments We’re almost there, We decreased child mortality 33% from 1990 to 2009 we can lower it further by 2015 Our goal is to reduce mortality to under 32 per thousand Indonesia is ON TRACK for the 2015 We have shown evidence of success…and with 50 million dollars, we will continue that trend

Questions?