Infant Mortality

Despite Rocky Economy, Money For Global Health Remains Solid

Michaeleen Doucleff — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:06:00 +0000

Given the world's economic troubles, you'd probably expect money to fight HIV and other illnesses around the world to have plummeted in the past few years.

But foreign aid for global health held steady in 2011 and 2012, hovering right around $28 billion a year, a report published Wednesday finds.

Just to put this number in perspective, that's about 3 percent of what the U.S.

Why Is The African-American Infant Mortality Rate So High?

Colorado Public News and Carol McKinley — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:33:26 +0000

Rita Beam was a young nurse working in the mother-baby unit at Denver's Rose Medical Center three decades ago when she noticed a disturbing disparity, which would forever define her career.

Milwaukee's 'Misery Index': Infant Mortality

NPR Staff — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:10:00 +0000

Impoverished Third World countries often find themselves at the bottom of lists when it comes to infant mortality rates. There is a part of Milwaukee where the infant mortality rate is worse than in parts of rural China.

Why Black Women, Infants Lag In Birth Outcomes

Michele Norris — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:06:00 +0000

The overwhelming majority of babies in the U.S. are born healthy, and their growth brings joy and comfort to their parents.

But across the country, there is a whopping disparity in birth outcomes based on race. Black women fare worse than white women in almost every aspect of reproductive health.

"Any state you look at, you see the same disparities, and race is the strongest predictor of disparities," says Dr. Deborah Ehrenthal, of Christiana Care Health System in Delaware.