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=== Health === {{Main|Health in Bolivia}} {{See also|Refresh Bolivia}} According to UNICEF under-five mortality rate in 2006 was 52.7 per 1000 and was reduced to 26 per 1000 by 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (BOL) – Demographics, Health & Infant Mortality|url=https://data.unicef.org/country/bol/|access-date=17 December 2020|website=UNICEF DATA|archive-date=14 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114030330/https://data.unicef.org/country/bol/|url-status=live}}</ref> The infant mortality rate was 40.7 per 1000 in 2006 and was reduced to 21.2 per 1000 in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) – Bolivia {{!}} Data|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN?locations=BO&start=2006|access-date=17 December 2020|website=data.worldbank.org|archive-date=14 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414232742/https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN?locations=BO&start=2006|url-status=live}}</ref> Before Morales took office, nearly half of all infants were not vaccinated; now nearly all are vaccinated. Morales also put into place several supplemental nutrition programs, including an effort to supply free food in public health and social security offices, and his desnutrición cero (zero malnutrition) program provides free school lunches.<ref name=":1" /> Between 2006 and 2016, extreme poverty in Bolivia fell from 38.2% to 16.8%. Chronic malnutrition in children under five years of age also went down by 14% and the child mortality rate was reduced by more than 50%, according to [[World Health Organization]].<ref>{{Cite web|publisher=World Health Organization|url=http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.country.country-BOL?lang=en|title=GHO {{pipe}} By country {{pipe}} Bolivia (Plurinational State of) – statistics summary (2002–present)|access-date=15 September 2019|archive-date=21 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200421094154/https://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.country.country-BOL?lang=en|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019 the Bolivian government created a universal healthcare system which has been cited as a model for all by the World Health Organization.<ref>{{Cite web|date=25 May 2019|title=Bolivia's universal healthcare is model for the world, says UN|url=https://www.pressenza.com/2019/05/bolivias-universal-healthcare-is-model-for-the-world-says-un/|access-date=17 December 2020|website=Pressenza|archive-date=21 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121054706/https://www.pressenza.com/2019/05/bolivias-universal-healthcare-is-model-for-the-world-says-un/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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