Afghan child deaths plummet - The Guardian 5th November 2007

Almost 90,000 Afghan children who would have died before their fifth birthday during Taliban rule will stay alive this year because of improved healthcare, President Hamid Karzai said yesterday. The under-five 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.

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