Table 2.

Estimate of deaths averted (in thousands) among children aged under 5 years by interventions in Eastern Mediterranean countries with mortality above 50/1000 live births

Intervention	No (%) of deaths prevented
Preventive
Family and community care:
Periconceptual folic acid	4 (0.3)
Promotion of breast feeding	151 (10.8)
Appropriate complementary feeding strategies including dietary diversification	54 (3.9)
Water, sanitation, and hygiene strategies	31 (2.2)
Outreach services:
Effective antenatal care	17 (1.2)
Tetanus toxoid administration	36 (2.6)
Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy	2 (0.2)
Insecticide treated materials for malaria	24 (1.7)
Vitamin A supplementation	11 (0.8)
Clinic based care:
Treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy	8 (0.6)
Skilled maternal and immediate newborn care	53 (3.8)
Antenatal steroids in high risk cases (preterm births)	23 (1.6)
Extra care of low birthweight infants	19 (1.4)
Haemophillus influenzae B vaccine (as part of standard vaccination schedule)	29 (2.1)
Measles vaccine	30 (2.1)
Treatment
Family and community care:
Oral rehydration therapy	65 (4.7)
Appropriate antibiotics for pneumonia	42 (3.0)
Outreach services:
Zinc for diarrhoea	4 (0.3)
Appropriate antimalarials including artemisin combination	4 (0.3)
Clinic based care:
Antibiotics for preterm premature rupture of membranes	5 (0.3)
Emergency obstetric care	19 (1.3)
Emergency newborn care	35 (2.5)
Appropriate treatment of neonatal pneumonia	31 (2.2)
Antibiotics for dysentery	6 (0.4)
Vitamin A for measles	1 (0.1)
Antiretroviral treatment	3 (0.2)