Seated on her bed at a maternity clinic in Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya, Daruno Abdi, a mother of six, watches other mothers breastfeed their newborns. She has been here for the past three days and can’t wait for her turn to deliver her baby. Daruno fled conflict and famine in her country Somalia. She never expected to […]
Tag: child mortality
Abhay Bang on saving children’s lives
In 1945 my father had just been released from prison after taking part in India’s freedom movement and wanted to travel to the US to study economics. One week before he was due to leave he went to see Mahatma Gandhi and asked for his blessing. The old man looked at my father for a few […]
Olivia Roberts: More tales from the UN number-crunchers
Quick follow on from the last blog post on the wonderful world of UN statistics. This time the Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) has ploughed through country data. Good news: The estimated global mortality for children under-5 in 2008 is 65 per 1,000 live births, versus 90 in 1990. Bad news: Due to […]