Afghanistan, Iraq Near Top Of Infant Mortality Table

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http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/05/4a3a9c3f-5a45-4287-99e3-3f6866bb2bfd.html

A new study says Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq are among the countries with the highest death rates for newborns in the world.

The study by the U.S.-based independent charity Save the Children says the African nation of Liberia has the world's highest newborn mortality rate, with 65 out of 1,000 babies dying.

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The report says illiteracy, poverty, malnutrition, poor hygiene, and crippled health-care systems are among the factors contributing to the high rates of death among infants and mothers during or soon after birth.
(some of that sounds familiar here in america)

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The study says Scandinavian countries, led by Sweden, are the best places for a mother's health. The United States and Britain tie for 10th position, while the impoverished African country of Niger was ranked at the bottom of the 125 countries surveyed.
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"a mother's health" when was the last time those words crossed congress' lips? a neo-con's lips could never form those words without cracking.

[kenny blankenship]

1. We're bringin' Good Ol' Self-Reliance medicine to our capti- to our allies

to our newly liberated allies, I meant to say.

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps you heathen fetuses! It's the same for our poor here in God's United States, and they are all the healthier for it.