Cliff
At 09:32 PM 9/11/02 +0530, you wrote:
>Economist.com
>
>Infant mortality
>
>Sep 5th 2002
> From The Economist print edition
>
>About 11m children below the age of five die every year around the world
>from preventable conditions such as malnutrition or illnesses caused by
>dirty air and water. Child-mortality rates are highest in Afghanistan and
>several countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In Zambia, Kenya and Zimbabwe,
>rates are now higher than in 1980. However, they have fallen by more than
>half in India, Indonesia and Peru over the past two decades. Two years ago,
>the United Nations agreed to a target to cut child-mortality rates by
>two-thirds by 2015. This objective may be helped by the agreement at the
>Johannesburg summit to achieve access to basic sanitation for more of the
>world's poor.
>
>http://www.economist.com/markets/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1317823
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