Iraqi Child Deaths
by Media Lens
Media Indifferent as UNICEF Reports Worsening Catastrophe
UNICEF estimates that some indications showed improvement in Iraqi child mortality between 1999 and 2002 - the death rate dropped to 125 in 2002 (from 130 in 1999). However, this trend has reversed under the occupation and child mortality is actually worsening as compared to 2002 levels. UNICEF's Roger Wright added: “Since the war more children in Iraq are malnourished, fewer children are protected from immunizable diseases and there has been an increase in the incidence of diarrhoeal disease.”....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct04/MediaLens1022.htm
Media Indifferent as UNICEF Reports Worsening Catastrophe
UNICEF estimates that some indications showed improvement in Iraqi child mortality between 1999 and 2002 - the death rate dropped to 125 in 2002 (from 130 in 1999). However, this trend has reversed under the occupation and child mortality is actually worsening as compared to 2002 levels. UNICEF's Roger Wright added: “Since the war more children in Iraq are malnourished, fewer children are protected from immunizable diseases and there has been an increase in the incidence of diarrhoeal disease.”....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct04/MediaLens1022.htm
Starmail - 22. Okt, 15:49
