207.Accessibility to prenatal care has experienced a marked increase in fact, the
proportion of women who had at least one antenatal visit rose from 81% in 2002 to
89.4% in 2006 and 90.2% in 2009. Indeed, benefits targeting the mother and the child
that were built earlier in the basic care are subject to continuous reinforcement.
208.The rate of infant mortality also declined, it increased from 57.8 per 1,000 live
births in 1990 to 26.9 per 1,000 live births in 2006 to 23.7 per 1,000 live births in
2010 (decrease of 59%) and 22.6 1,000 live births in 2012.
209.The number of live births in hospitals is increasing steadily from 639,466 births
in 2007 to 779 255 births in 2010 and 978 000 births in 2012. The percentage of
newborns that have neonatal infection has remained below 3% over the past three
years.
TABLE n° 3 Evolution of infant mortality by sex (per thousand live births) 19902012
Year
Male
Female
All
1990
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
60,00
38,4
38,9
36,1
34,6
32,2
32,4
28,3
27,9
26,9
26,2
25,2
24,6
23,9
55,50
35,3
35,9
33,3
30,3
28,5
28,2
25,3
24,4
23,9
22,9
22,2
21,6
21,2
57,80
36,9
37,5
34,7
32,5
30,4
30,4
26,9
26,2
25,5
24,8
23,7
23,1
22,6
210.The infant mortality rate expected for 2015 would fall to 15.5 per thousand live
births for MDGs set at 15.6 per thousand. Moreover, the projection of the trend
related to the decline of infant and child mortality, which went from 55.7 per thousand
in 1990 and to 31, 4 in 2006 and 26.1 in 2012, would set the infant and child mortality
rates at 18.3 per thousand in 2015.
National Nutrition Programme
211. In 2006, during the MICS3, anthropometric measurements have shown that:
a. 3.7% of children surveyed are moderately or severely thin including 0.6% who are
severely thin (in 1995, these figures were 10% and 3%)
b. 11.3% of children suffer from moderate or severe stunted growth including 3%
with severe delay (in 2000, these figures were 18% and 5.1%).
212.This favourable change in the index of malnutrition of children below five is
supported in terms of analysis, by the development of general data on poverty within
the population through households consumer surveys, conducted by the National
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