Child and Infant Mortality Rate in Afghanistan

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Afghanistan is a country in war and a country in devastation. Afghanistan has one of the world’s highest infant mortality rates and the world’s highest birth rates. Because of the high infant mortality rates, they also have many problems in health, sanitation, and a lack of food they have. Because of poor health and sanitation in the country of Afghanistan, the Afghanis have many sicknesses and diseases. Sickness causes high infant mortality rates. The diseases that cause high death rates are bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid fever, malaria, and rabies (Demographics 2013). Because the mothers do not have enough nutrition when giving birth to the infants, many of the mothers die in childbirth. And because of the two decades of war, the war also left many people especially children homeless. As a result, there are children on the streets of Afghanistan without a families and shelter. What should the United Nations do to help Afghanistan? To help Afghanistan, the United Nations should assist Afghanistan with food and health problems to help reduce the high morality and birth rates so Afghanistan could start moving towards the third demographic transition.
The high infant mortality rates are causing Afghanistan to lose many people. If this continues to happen, the country will not have enough people to continue a new generation. Because the country of Afghanistan is limited in resources, the people living in the country greatly outnumber the amount of resources available to them. The country is also limited in medical centers. Approximately eighty-five percent of the population lives about three to four hours from a medical center therefore making it difficult to find treatment when needed. “The Afghans cereal...

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