Childhood deaths are down.
For example, after throwing out the Taliban, midwife training led to a huge decrease in maternal/child deaths.
“Behind these numbers lie the stories of midwives and skilled health personnel helping mothers safely deliver their newborns… vaccinating… Children against deadly diseases, and (making) home visits to support families,” Unicef Executive Director Catherine Russell said in a statement.
Routine vaccinations also lowered the death rate from measles and whooping cough.
and encouraging family planning that enables spacing of children, along with encouraging prolonged breast feeding, also helps.
and the general lowering of the poverty rate led to better food so the kids had better immune systems. That is why the covid shutdown was a disaster here in the third world.
the resurgence of an obsolete form of Islamic fanaticism will reverse these trends in many countries.
And the anti vax types will ignore the good of the vaccines leading to deaths.
and the green movement to ban fossil fuels will make the economy worse by raising food prices and by subtle things like making LGP gas to cook with too expensive, so back to using wood (causing indoor pollution and asthma in kids, not to mention deforestation).
Sigh.
