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The Two Best Ways to Reduce Infant MortalityBANGKOK – One of the more ambitious targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the commitment to end preventable
deaths
of newborns and children over the next decade.
If this target is met, by 2030 no country will have a neonatal mortality rate above 12
deaths
per 1,000 births – a quarter of the current rate in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Protecting children from early
deaths
begins before they are born.
Consequently, the official figures that put the number of
deaths
from methyl mercury poisoning at 6,500 people only cover those who died in hospital.
The government has won support for this punitive approach by convincing the public that it is the only option for reducing the number of
deaths
at sea.
Last year, researchers at Harvard University found that in Massachusetts, which has expanded its Medicaid coverage in recent years, 868 opioid-related
deaths
were averted in 2016, whereas only 11 opioid-related
deaths
were averted in Tennessee, which did not expand its Medicaid program.
The losses pale in comparison to, say, Syria, where the air campaign being carried out by Russian, Iranian, and Syrian forces racks up 10,000 civilian
deaths
in a matter of weeks.
And while
deaths
from many other diseases, including acute malnutrition, have declined, hidden hunger remains pervasive.
New HIV infections have dropped by as much as 50% in some countries in Africa, with AIDS-related
deaths
down by 30-48%;TB cases have declined by 40%, and malaria cases by 30%.
In Africa, hunger remains the leading cause of death in children, accounting for half of all
deaths
of children under the age of five and killing more than AIDS, TB, and malaria combined.
Indeed, childhood malnutrition is now confirmed to be the leading cause of the global disease burden, with the World Health Organization attributing to it 45% of all
deaths
under the age of five in 2011.
Indeed, according to a recent World Health Organization report, a reduction in the consumption of processed and red meat would have the additional benefit of reducing cancer
deaths.
Simply put, TB remains one of the deadliest epidemics in Africa today, and one-quarter of all TB
deaths
worldwide occur there.
Additional losses could be billed for the Russian-supported war in southeast Ukraine, which has led to 6,000
deaths
and large-scale damage to infrastructure.
It would be a mistake to believe that the
deaths
of thousands of civilians, along with arbitrary imprisonment and torture, do not contribute to the spread of terror in Iraq.
Most of these
deaths
occur in Asia and Africa, with India alone accounting for one-third of the world’s total mortality from rabies.
Saudi Arabia’s Old Regime Grows OlderLONDON – The contrast between the deaths, within two days of each other, of Libya’s Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz is one of terminal buffoonery versus decadent gerontocracy.
I recount this history not to draw a parallel with today’s Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which, just a couple of weeks ago, resulted in many civilian deaths, overwhelmingly in Gaza.
What is surprising is that there have been 67 more deaths, on average, each year.
According to Ban, the number of Palestinian children killed in 2014 was higher than the numbers of child
deaths
in Syria and Darfur, and was exceeded only in Afghanistan and Iraq.
From 2010 to 2015, as part of the global Millennium Development Goals, the continent reduced the malaria incidence rate (the number of new infections) by 21% and malaria
deaths
by 31%.
An estimated 429,000 people – mostly children under five years of age – died from malaria that year, with 92% of those
deaths
occurring in Africa and 40% occurring in just two countries, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Preventable illnesses and
deaths
limit the ability of communities to contribute to Africa’s much-needed economic transformation.
Within the next five years, there could be more than one million cancer
deaths
annually in Africa, a surge in mortality that would make cancer one of the continent’s top killers.
In recent decades, international and local cooperation have reduced Africa’s malaria
deaths
by 60% , pushed polio to the brink of eradication, and extended the lives of millions of Africans infected with HIV/AIDS.
Turkey accuses Iraqi Kurds of harboring between 3,000 and 3,500 of Turkey’s most active Kurdish militants – the PKK separatist guerillas who are blamed for the
deaths
of 80 Turkish soldiers so far this year.
Of course, there is no denying the dangers associated with a military intervention: regional expansion of the conflict, the
deaths
of many more innocent people, and the strengthening of extremist forces among the rebels, to name only a few.
But when a country’s dysfunctional governance has caused the
deaths
of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and threatens neighboring countries, such complaints have no place in the debate.
But while TB
deaths
have declined by half since 1990, the impact of diabetes is rising fast.
In fact, the impact of NCDs is especially acute in low- and middle-income countries; according to the WHO report, more than 80% of diabetes-related
deaths
occur outside high-income countries.
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