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  1. Taiye selasi explains why it is easier for Africans to accept child mortality. Her reasoning goes to the are of life being chaos and suffering and therefore it's better to leave beautiful things out of it.
    She says, because Africans are very aware of beauty in life and the world they hesitate to name it.
    Don't draw beauty into your chaotic mess by naming it.

    So you don't name a baby before it's second week

    #TaiyeSelasi #abortion #GhanaMustGo #ChildMortality #africa #WesternCountries

  2. Taiye selasi explains why it is easier for Africans to accept child mortality. Her reasoning goes to the are of life being chaos and suffering and therefore it's better to leave beautiful things out of it.
    She says, because Africans are very aware of beauty in life and the world they hesitate to name it.
    Don't draw beauty into your chaotic mess by naming it.

    So you don't name a baby before it's second week

    #TaiyeSelasi #abortion #GhanaMustGo #ChildMortality #africa #WesternCountries

  3. Taiye selasi explains why it is easier for Africans to accept child mortality. Her reasoning goes to the are of life being chaos and suffering and therefore it's better to leave beautiful things out of it.
    She says, because Africans are very aware of beauty in life and the world they hesitate to name it.
    Don't draw beauty into your chaotic mess by naming it.

    So you don't name a baby before it's second week

    #TaiyeSelasi #abortion #GhanaMustGo #ChildMortality #africa #WesternCountries

  4. Taiye selasi explains why it is easier for Africans to accept child mortality. Her reasoning goes to the are of life being chaos and suffering and therefore it's better to leave beautiful things out of it.
    She says, because Africans are very aware of beauty in life and the world they hesitate to name it.
    Don't draw beauty into your chaotic mess by naming it.

    So you don't name a baby before it's second week

    #TaiyeSelasi #abortion #GhanaMustGo #ChildMortality #africa #WesternCountries

  5. Centre suspends chief of institute that prepares family health survey

    International Institute for Population Sciences Director KS James had reportedly been asked to quit as the government had reservations about some data sets.

    The Wire reported that some of the findings of the National Family Health Survey-5 were at odds with claims made by the Narendra Modi government. The survey has punched holes in the prime minister’s claims of the country being open defecation free.

    #IIPS #FamilyHealthSurvey #KSJames #data #welfare #nutrition #ChildMortality #SwachhBharat #OpenDefecation #BJP #UnionGovt #dissent #india

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  6. Centre suspends chief of institute that prepares family health survey

    International Institute for Population Sciences Director KS James had reportedly been asked to quit as the government had reservations about some data sets.

    The Wire reported that some of the findings of the National Family Health Survey-5 were at odds with claims made by the Narendra Modi government. The survey has punched holes in the prime minister’s claims of the country being open defecation free.

    #IIPS #FamilyHealthSurvey #KSJames #data #welfare #nutrition #ChildMortality #SwachhBharat #OpenDefecation #BJP #UnionGovt #dissent #india

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  7. Centre suspends chief of institute that prepares family health survey

    International Institute for Population Sciences Director KS James had reportedly been asked to quit as the government had reservations about some data sets.

    The Wire reported that some of the findings of the National Family Health Survey-5 were at odds with claims made by the Narendra Modi government. The survey has punched holes in the prime minister’s claims of the country being open defecation free.

    #IIPS #FamilyHealthSurvey #KSJames #data #welfare #nutrition #ChildMortality #SwachhBharat #OpenDefecation #BJP #UnionGovt #dissent #india

    scroll.in/latest/1053464/centr

  8. Centre suspends chief of institute that prepares family health survey

    International Institute for Population Sciences Director KS James had reportedly been asked to quit as the government had reservations about some data sets.

    The Wire reported that some of the findings of the National Family Health Survey-5 were at odds with claims made by the Narendra Modi government. The survey has punched holes in the prime minister’s claims of the country being open defecation free.

    #IIPS #FamilyHealthSurvey #KSJames #data #welfare #nutrition #ChildMortality #SwachhBharat #OpenDefecation #BJP #UnionGovt #dissent #india

    scroll.in/latest/1053464/centr

  9. Gun and car accident deaths explain the higher level of mortality among children and youth (under age 24) in the US south over past 50 years than peers living elsewhere.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/323178

    @uncpopcenter #NICHDImpact #Mortality #ChildMortality #South #Safety #FirearmDeaths #CarAccidents

  10. CW: Child mortality

    “The poorer the children, the higher the risk of mortality, but nothing’s been done. We’re in a high-income country and this is on our doorstep. ... We talk about parental neglect a lot … but I see this as societal neglect.”
    -- Prof Monica Lakhanpaul, University College London, on a study in JAMA Network Open by Prof Karen Luyt, University of Bristol.

    theguardian.com/society/2023/j

    #ChildMortality #ChildDeaths #Poverty #England #Inequality #JAMANetworkOpen #UniversityOfBristol #UKpol

  11. CW: Child mortality

    “The poorer the children, the higher the risk of mortality, but nothing’s been done. We’re in a high-income country and this is on our doorstep. ... We talk about parental neglect a lot … but I see this as societal neglect.”
    -- Prof Monica Lakhanpaul, University College London, on a study in JAMA Network Open by Prof Karen Luyt, University of Bristol.

    theguardian.com/society/2023/j

    #ChildMortality #ChildDeaths #Poverty #England #Inequality #JAMANetworkOpen #UniversityOfBristol #UKpol