Recent survey was done across the country by the NSO in collaboration with UNICEF. It covered nearly 43,000 households.
The research confirmed that there has been progressive development in children’s nutritional status, school attendance, access to safe water and sanitation, and essential health services.
1. Percentage of underweight children has fallen from 19 to nine.
2. Attendance in primary school has escalated to 98%.
3. The number of one-year-old children fully immunized against the six preventable childhood diseases was 83%.
4. The percentage of the population with access to safe water and sanitation was 94% and 99%, respectively.
The survey also highlighted low rate of breast-feeding. The percentage of infants being exclusively breast-fed during the first six months was only 5.4%, one of the lowest rates in the world.
It also postulated that more work is required to make people aware of HIV/AIDS. Less than half of 15- to 49-year-old women have comprehensive knowledge about HIV/AIDS.
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This is the first time that I read your blogs and I am abhorred at the brutality against women and especially in Guatemala which is so close to Miami where I live. We had not heard about the hunger there that even exceeds Haiti’s. Do you know of anything that is being done or of any organization (grassroot)trying to help?
Thank you,
Birgit