Mikama - Jun 21, 2018

José Belalahy dans Midi Madagasikara

Rapportées ou non par la presse, les violences envers les enfants sont des faits sociaux qui se pratiquent quotidiennement au vu et au su de tous. La situation est d’autant plus inquiétante lorsque lesdits faits sociaux sont considérés comme normaux, minimisés et normalisés….Et ce, au détriment des victimes qui endurent les faits dans le silence et l’ignorance totale. (..)
2523 personnes interrogées durant l’étude
Près de neuf  jeunes sur dix déclarent avoir été victimes de châtiment corporel au sein de leur famille
Un jeune sur deux dit avoir subi des violences en milieu scolaire
Quatre  enfants sur 10 affirment avoir travaillé avant l’âge de 18 ans
89% des jeunes déclarent avoir été victimes de châtiment corporel dans leur famille, soit près de neuf  jeunes sur 10
65% des répondants considèrent le châtiment corporel comme approprié à la maison
Plus de la moitié des jeunes affirment avoir subi des violences en milieu scolaire, soit un  jeune sur deux
29% des jeunes acceptent le châtiment corporel en milieu scolaire
Pour le travail des enfants, 40% de jeunes affirment avoir travaillé avant 18 ans.

Dans Forbes
In Madagascar, about 10 women die each day from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, according to the United States Agency for International Development. (For comparison, in the U.S.—which has the worst maternal mortality rate in the developed world, according to a study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—around two women die each day from pregnancy-related causes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.) Meanwhile, the use of effective contraceptive methods remains low in Madagascar—estimates put use at only 40 percent for married women of reproductive age (15 to 49). To help curb preventable pregnancy-related deaths, Madagascar’s government set a goal in 2015 to boost contraception use to 50 percent, reports NPR. That’s become especially ambitious in the wake of the reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule by the Trump Administration, which experts say will significantly impact women’s access to healthcare in Africa.

Dans USAID
Every day, 100 Malagasy children die- primarily from common and preventable illnesses. And, every day 10 Malagasy women die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. (..) Under-five child mortality reached 52 per 1,000 live births in 2013, surpassing the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target of 56 by 2015. More than 20 percent of under-five mortality in Madagascar is due to pneumonia—the single leading cause of child death, followed by diarrhea, malaria and other nutrition-related factors. Additionally, more than half of the country’s population lives more than 5km from a health center, making it difficult for a skilled health provider to attend to all births and for pregnant women to deliver at a health facility. (..) USAID/Madagascar has adopted new and innovative approaches ‘to reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, and achieve universal access to reproductive health’ (4th and 5th MDGs). One such innovative approach is the support it provides to an expanded network of over 17,000 CHVs in nearly all the 22 regions of Madagascar, with skills training, job aids, and life-saving health commodities. This program increases access to life-saving products and services to the majority population living in the rural and remote countryside. Other innovations include the community-led total sanitation (CLTS), which is an innovative hygiene behavior change methodology for the communities to eliminate open defecation...