Most African countries will not reach SDG child mortality goal

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Most African countries will not reach SDG child mortality goal

6:17 CAT | 23 Jul 2025

Photo: AIM

Most African countries, including Mozambique, will not reach target 3.2 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) regarding the reduction of child mortality, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Target 3.2 of the SDGs is aimed at preventing deaths of newborns and children under five years of age by 2030 It involves reducing neonatal mortality (deaths of infants under 28 days) and under-five mortality (deaths of children under five years old).

According to Eduardo Samo Gudo, general director of the National Health Institute (INS), who was speaking at the Innovation and Action Forum for Immunization and Survival 2025, taking place in Maputo, “This forum is an important milestone, during which we intend to discuss strategies, innovations, solutions and also make new global commitments to reposition the world, particularly Africa, on the right path and trajectory in order to achieve the global goal of reducing child mortality by 2030”, he said.

The representative of the Lá Caixa Foundation, Oriana Ramirez Rúbio, praised the governments of Mozambique, Italy, Spain and the Gates Foundation for their joint efforts to combat child mortality.

“We believe in public-private partnerships”, she said. “These are fundamental alliances in health, making it possible to combine resources, knowledge and especially innovations”.

Rúbio explained that the Lá Caixa Foundation began working with the Mozambican government and civil society in 2001, with the implementation of various projects, “as an example, the Alliance for Vaccination project, an initiative implemented with the governments of Mozambique and Sierra Leone.”

For her part, the representative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Magdalena Robert, said that the organization had already worked with the maternal and child health sectors 20 years ago and the situation in Mozambique was much more complex.

“Some of you have heard that the Bill Gates Foundation has pledged two billion US dollars over the next few years, which means that we will continue to work with all of you here in Mozambique, in Sierra Leone, on the African continent and around the world”, she said.

“There was a commitment in Brussels at the end of June that money will come to Mozambique, to Sierra Leone, and many other poor countries in Africa in order to have vaccines for malaria and other diseases,” she said.

Source: AIM