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According to the Human Development Report 2003, the under-five morality rate in Georgia in 2001 was 29 per 1,000 live births. This was better that the average for ECA (36/1, 000); and much better than the average for medium human development group of countries - 61 per 1,000 live births. /Td>
Due to current efforts and actions planned under the EDPRP to keep immunization rates at high level, improve breast-feeding rates, provide appropriate case management and home and in community for acute respiratory infection, pneumonia and diarrhea and improve access to appropriate health care, reliable water and improved sanitation, it is estimated that Georgia will make a significant progress in reducing the U5MR. However, the MDG target (U5MR of 9.7 per 1,000 live births, which is close to the current U5MR level in developed countries) is estimated as unlikely to be met, given Georgia's very low public spending on health.
Goal 5: Improve maternal health.
Target 6 : Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.
Available data suggests the MMR doubled over the last 10 years to almost 59 per 100,000 live births in 2001. Only 59 percent of women complete the mandatory 4 antenatal visits but 96% of births are attended by skilled health personnel
Planned actions aimed at improving antenatal care are expected to result in decreased maternal mortality. However, given high maternal mortality rate and its recent increase, the MDG target (15 per 100,000 live births) is estimated as unlikely to be met.
Millennium Development Goal
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Prospects for Achievement by 2015
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases .
Target 7 : Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Target 8: Have halted by 2015, and begun to reverse, the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
HIV/AID is spreading fast. The number of new HIV cases in 1997 increased nearly threefold compared with the previous year and accounted 21 cases; in 2001 93 cases were registered. From 1998 through 2001 more then a half of newly registered HIV cases have been attributed to IDUs. The percentage of new cases attributed to heterosexual contacts also increases, suggesting that the epidemic is leaking into the general population. HIV/AIDS is predominantly present in youn...
