Child Mortality

During class we touched on high mortality rates that occur in African nations.  Here is the link to the article I brought up in class.  It brings to the table quite a bit of alarming statistics regarding death rates and the causes in children.  I reasserts that the most shaky ages in the people of Africa are from birth to age five.  Additionally, in 2007 Unicef estimated that a staggering 9.2 million children under the age of five died from preventable causes worldwide.  This article does note though the improvements the country of Africa has been making on a whole in improving their infant and child morality.