DHS in the News

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Pamela Constable
THE WASHINGTON POST (Washington, DC)

"...In a few isolated provinces the mortality rate is still high, but a recent Afghan government survey found that between 2001 and 2015, the nationwide mortality rate for all infants had fallen from 66 to 45 deaths per 1,000 live births, and from 87 to 55 deaths per 1,000 for all children under 5 years old..."

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Pamela Constable
THE WASHINGTON POST (Washington, DC)

"...In a few isolated provinces the mortality rate is still high, but a recent Afghan government survey found that between 2001 and 2015, the nationwide mortality rate for all infants had fallen from 66 to 45 deaths per 1,000 live births, and from 87 to 55 deaths per 1,000 for all children under 5 years old..."

 

URL to article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/24/afghan-babies-have-been-dying-in-huge-numbers-for-decades-now-something-is-changing/.cfm