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Article: Cambodia's child survival rate significantly improved: report
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 31, 2006
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Cambodia's child survival rate significantly improved: report
PHNOM PENH, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has made significant
improvements in child survival, total fertility and child health care
in the past five years, according to an official report released on
Thursday.
The preliminary findings of the 2005 Cambodia Demographic and
Health Survey (CDHS) showed striking differences between the
situation in 2000 and the situation today.
According to the report, the infant mortality rate dropped from 95
to 65 deaths per 1,000 births, and the mortality rate of the child
under five is now 83 per 1,000 births compared with 124 in 2000.
There was also a rapid decline in the total fertility rate ...