text: UNDP and the Rockefeller Foundation continue to support the Task Force for Child Survival as a facility to promote lie I and other child health initiatives. The Task Force continues to publish the quarterly newsletter, World Immunization New (WIN), and has scheduled an international meet- ing in Bangkok (1-3 March 1990) to promote final efforts to achieve UCI/ 1990 targets and to develop an inter- national consensus on strategies for achieving child survival goals during the rest of the 1990s. tfs to cdticatf health in the preparation atuf use uf trwiiriottal atilutiiitu to treat iiiatvtmcal dehydration.Oral rehydration therapy/Control of diarrhoea! diseases UNICEF offices in 112 countries are now involved in national CDD pro- grammes, extending coverage to an estimated 99 per cent of the develop- ing world. In some cases, UNICEF is the major source of support for these national efforts. Recent global estimates suggest that almost 60 per cent of children under five years of age have access to a trained, regularly supplied provider of ORS, although regional access ranges from 75 per cent in Asia to just 25 per cent in Africa. The global use rate rose from 14 per cent to 19 per cent during 1987, the last year for which figures are available. Increased access to, and use of, ORS is attributable in part to the continued expansion of ORS production. There arc now 59 producer countries, and UNICEF has provided direct produc- tion assistance to more than halt" of them. It is estimated that in 1989 the equivalent of 350 million litres of rehydration salts were produced glob- ally—up from 40 million litres in 1980. More than 75 per cent of this production was in the developing world. At least seven developing countries are now self-sufficient in ORS, and some export small quantities to neighbouring countries.
analysis: The text primarily discusses the efforts of the Task Force for Child Survival and UNICEF in promoting child health initiatives, specifically the control of diarrheal diseases and access to oral rehydration therapy. The text also mentions the production of rehydration salts and the global use rate of this therapy. Given the focus on health and the specific mention of child health initiatives, it is likely that the text falls under the category of Health.