Nigeria: Nigeria must boost under-5 mortality rate reduction to meet SDG target — UNICEF

Nigeria needs to increase its efforts to reduce the under-5 mortality rate by nine times in order to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.2 target by 2030, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Currently, Nigeria’s annual reduction rate for under-5 mortality is only 1.8%, which is insufficient to achieve the SDG target.

UNICEF has indicated that Nigeria must accelerate this reduction to 16.5% per year. Achieving this significant…