Aid Works
Child mortality decreases
- With aid assistance, 11 (of 29) countries in our region (Asia-Pacific) are on track meet the MDG target on child mortality
- In Africa the child mortality rate in Malawi has fallen by 55% since the MDGs began
Education for more children
- Since 2000 primary school enrolments have been growing at a rate six times that of the 1990s. Thanks to additional aid and debt cancellation for many countries, over 34 million extra children in developing countries are now able to attend and complete primary school. For example, in Uganda school enrolments rose from 3.4 million to 5.7 million students, and from 5.9 to 7.2 million in Kenya after school fees were abolished. In Tanzania aid has supported policies to remove school fees, construct classrooms (particularly in remote areas) and provide text books – this resulted in another 3 million kids in school
A decrease in HIV and AIDS and Malaria
- Childhood deaths from malaria have fallen sharply in countries like Ethiopia, Rwanda and Tanzania by provision of bed nets and anti malarial drugs
- In 2009 over four million HIV and AIDS sufferers were receiving life-sustaining antiretroviral drugs (up from 250,000 seven years ago)
Source: Oxfam Australia
Report by World Vision on Aid Effectiveness
Link: https://www.worldvision.com.au/Libraries/Reports/WVAReport_Effective_Aid_2011.sflb.ashx
