ArticleAnnals of global health2020
Improving Child Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Environmental and Nutritional Interventions.
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- Evaluating effectiveness of protective interventions towards environmental contamination among under-five children: systematic review and meta-analysis in Africa.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Interventions to Prevent Post-Discharge Mortality among Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2026Pooled it
- Under-five mortality and social determinants in africa: a systematic review.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
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- Dietary and non-dietary factors of undernutrition using Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure in children aged 6-23 months in Democratic Republic of the Congo: the 2023 National Nutrition Survey.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2026Article
- Investigation of the underlying causes of malnutrition among children in the Nyabihu and Ngororero districts of Rwanda: a cross-sectional descriptive survey design.The Pan African medical journal · 2025Article
- Newborn and child health national and provincial clinical practice guidelines in South Africa, Nigeria and Malawi: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Impact of health system strengthening interventions on child survival in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review protocol.Systematic reviews · 2024Article
- Editorial: Public health in Africa: role of nutrition and environment.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Factors associated with healthcare-seeking behavior for symptomatic acute respiratory infection among children in East Africa: a cross-sectional study.BMC pediatrics · 2022Article
- Child survival: the role of a mother's education.Heliyon · 2022Article
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Abstract
Many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), did not achieve the Millennium Development Goal 4 target of reducing under-five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. A large proportion of under-five deaths in SSA and other developing regions have been attributed to undernutrition and poor household environmental conditions. Failure to address nutritional deficit and household environmental pollution in SSA will therefore likely result in many countries not meeting the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.2 target which aims to reduce under-five mortality to less than 25 deaths per 1000 livebirths by 2030. This paper pinpoints the nutritional and environmental threats to child health in SSA, and identify interventions that will work best to improve child survival in countries. It is important to broaden the spectrum of interventions for improving child survival beyond health systems strengthening to enable countries meet the SDG 3.2 target. The following interventions are thus proposed: strengthening child welfare clinics through digital technologies; investment in school feeding programmes; addressing household air pollution; and improving water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in basic schools. There are certainly barriers to effective implementation of the proposed interventions in countries but are surmountable with strong political will and involvement of the private sector.
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