The decline of Zimbabwe's health system, once one of the best in the region, has been underlined by the unravelling of its national immunisation programme. Until 2001, immunisation coverage for most antigens was over 70 percent. But coverage in some districts has now dropped to 44 percent, and the number of children dying before their first birthday has increased from around 56 per 1,000 live births in 1999 to around 65 per live 1,000 births in 2000.
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