Aspiration
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Aspiration 4: Every child survives and has a healthy childhood.
By 2020, States • should have reduced by one-third premature mortality from non-communicable
diseases through prevention and treatment and promoted mental health and
wellbeing;
• should have ensured universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care
services, including family planning, information and education, and the integration
of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes;
• should have achieved universal health coverage, access to quality essential
health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential
medicines and vaccines for all;
• should have achieved the immunisation against measles and polio of all infants;
and should strengthen the health care system to allow for effective routine
immunisation of all children for all major diseases, in line with the Global Vaccine
Action Plan (GVAP) 2011-2020;
• should, in line with the Immunisation Declaration, have achieved the GVAP target
of at least 90 per cent national coverage and at least 80 per cent coverage in every
district for all nationally-available vaccines.
• should have ended preventable deaths of newborn children and children under
five years of age;
• should have put in place programmes to educate and sensitise parents to enable
and capacitate them to take care of their newborn children;
• should have achieved the goal of providing anti-retroviral medicines to at least 90
per cent of pregnant women living with HIV;
• should have eliminated new HIV infections among children by 90 per cent, and
have achieved a reduction in the number of AIDS-related maternal deaths by 50
per cent;
• should have improved programmes to ensure a sustained reduction in HIV
prevalence and incidence among adolescents;
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