US Saves 89,000 Afghani Children this Year.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Close to 90,000 children who would have died before age 5 in Afghanistan during Taliban rule will stay alive this year because of advances in medical care in the country, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday.
The under-5 child mortality rate in Afghanistan has declined from an estimated 257 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2001 to about 191 per 1,000 in 2006, the Ministry of Public Health said, relying on a new study by Johns Hopkins University.
The U.N. and aid agency Save the Children both hailed the advances in health care in Afghanistan.
“This is certainly very positive news,” said the U.N. spokesman in Afghanistan, Adrian Edwards. “To come from such low life expectancy to see this improvement does appear to be an indication that the work on the health sector here is beginning to pay off.”
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Fatimi, the health minister, said 85% of Afghans now have access to basic health care — a marked improvement from the past.
The reason there was any work on the health sector at all, though the UN spokesman and the USA Today fails to mention it, is George Bush and the US military. If the President had not gathered a coalition of forces, led mostly by US soldiers, to topple the Taliban, children would still be dying there at nearly the worst rate in the world.
The USA today couldn’t get by without a final jab, though.
The UNICEF report noted that, like Afghanistan, most of the countries with the worst child mortality rates have suffered from armed conflict.
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A U.S.-led invasion in 2001 toppled the Taliban militant movement from power.
So just you remember; war never solved anything! Except for infant mortality in Afghanistan.
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