SAHR 2007 - Health Systems Trust

Health and Related Indicators 15
1998, there is evidence that ill, but alive, mothers were more
likely than earlier to foster out even young children (aged
0-4) to the care of others”. They argued that “[t]he increase
in the fosterage of young African children was not a result of
increases in labour migration of their mothers”, but could be
attributed largely to HIV/AIDS. Institutional care of fostered
and orphaned African children is rare (less than 2%), with
most (61-86%) being “cared for in a household headed by a
grandparent or a great-grandparent” and “almost all others
in a household headed by another relative”.
Health Status – Child Health
Table 25: Child health indicators by province
EC FS GP KZN LP MP NC NW WC SA
Children under 5 years weighing rate
2004 DHIS 74.1 75.5 71.9 82.1 75.8 60.3 70.3 24.0 60.2 66.0 a
2006 DHIS 77.4 79.9 81.3 85.0 82.8 83.5 79.4 66.8 67.0 79.0 a
Diarrhoea incidence