Global Infant & Child Mortality

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    Child mortality on the decline...
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    UN: Child Mortality Rate Reduced by Half
    September 13, 2013 — A new report says the number of global deaths among children under age five is almost half what it was 22 years ago. A joint report by the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization,and World Bank finds about 6.6 million children died before reaching their fifth birthday in 2012 compared to 12 million children who died in 1990.
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    Ethiopia Cuts Child Mortality by Two-Thirds
    September 13, 2013 — The United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, says Ethiopia has achieved one of the Millennium Development Goals of reducing child mortality by more than two-thirds.
     
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    Follow-up therapy not happening for African children...
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    New Research Finds Gap in Diarrhea Care of African Children
    April 23, 2014 ~ New research recently published online by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene finds that young children suffering from diarrheal diseases are less likely to receive life-saving oral rehydration therapy (ORT) when seeking treatment in private clinics.
     
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    Stillborn deaths decreasing...
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    WHO Study Reports Fewer Childbirth Deaths
    May 06, 2014 — A new World Health Organization study finds maternal deaths due to complications in pregnancy and childbirth have been cut nearly in half over the past 24 years. But WHO says most countries will not meet the 2015 Millennium Development goal of reducing maternal deaths by two-thirds.
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    Report: Millions of Maternal and Child Deaths Can Be Prevented
    May 05, 2014 — The international aid agency Save the Children says millions of maternal and child deaths can be prevented by improving access to health care and other essential services. The agency’s annual State of the World’s Mothers report ranks 178 countries on how likely mothers are to survive childbirth.
     
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    Child mortality rates drop...
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    UN: Global Child Mortality Rates Show Steep Drop
    September 08, 2015 — Global mortality rates for children under five have fallen by more than half since 1990, when the Millennium Development Goals for addressing effects of poverty were established, a U.N. interagency group reported Wednesday.
     
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    Granny says, "Dat's right mommas - get yer zinc levels checked...
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    Low zinc levels indicate possible breast feeding problems
    Dec. 22, 2015 - More than a third of women studied had a genetic mutation that can affect zinc levels in breast milk.
     
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    Sub-Saharan Africa Has World's Highest Rates of Stillbirths...
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    Research: Sub-Saharan Africa Has World's Highest Rates of Stillbirths
    January 19, 2016 - Medical researchers have found that nearly all of the estimated 2.6 million stillbirths across the world last year occurred in low- and medium-income countries.
     
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    Dr Wallach talks about the process of preventing birth defects during pregnancy.

    But we learned in Veterinary Medicine how to prevent, 98% of all birth defects. This includes ones thought to be genetic in livestock. We prevent down syndrome, MD, cystic fibrosis, heart defects, cleft pallets, cleft lips, spinabifida, heart defects, hernias, We prevent all those things with what we call " Preconception nutrition "We give to all livestock and laboratory animals for 60m to 90 days before conception 60 to 90 days before pregnancy we give them optimal nutrition and optimum vitamins and minerals. so when that pregnancy occurs the embryo develops in optimal nutrition. In humans we wait till they miss one or two or three periods, they go to their OBGYN who gives her his blessing and says yes my dear your pregnant now you may have your pre natal vitamins. The human brain, spinal cord and heart form in the first twenty eight days of pregnancy. Do you think by getting your prenatal vitamins at the 60th or 90th or 120th day of pregnancy your going to prevent disease in that embryo ? Absolutely not. So yes we can prevent 98% of all birth defects.

    [video=youtube;e3jmCxafzhQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3jmCxafzhQ[/video]
     
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    Mother-infant mortality a problem in developing countries...
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    Developing Countries Tackle Mother, Infant Mortality
    February 16, 2017 | WASHINGTON — Too many women die in childbirth, and too many babies die during delivery. Dr. Flavia Bustreo at the World Health Organization (WHO) says it's hard to believe that in 2015, almost 6 million children under age 5 and more than 300,000 mothers died from complications of childbirth.
     
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    Maternal mortality rate seen as a key way to measure improvement in a nation’s health...
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    Asia struggles to reduce childbirth deaths
    Wed, Oct 18, 2017 - It seemed a simple statement: Women should not die from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth.
     

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