[lbo-talk] Afghan child mortality linked to uneducated mothers

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Tue Sep 2 18:06:53 PDT 2008


Afghan child mortality linked to uneducated mothers http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKHKG9685520080830?sp=true

Sat Aug 30, 2008

By Tan Ee Lyn

HONG KONG (Reuters) - High child mortality rates in conservative Afghanistan are linked not just to war but to mothers being uneducated and having little or no say when their children need medical help, a study has found. Child mortality rates in Afghanistan are among the highest in the world, and one out of every five Afghan children (or 191 out of every 1,000 live births) will not survive beyond age five. http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKHKG9685520080830?sp=true



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