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While Franklin County's infant-mortality rate dipped in 2017, disparities worsened for African-American babies, who were nearly three times more likely to die than white babies.Babies also were at higher risk in eight Columbus neighborhoods — Hilltop, Franklinton, the Near South Side, the Near East Side, the Southeast Side, the Northeast Side, and one in the Northland area — prioritized by the countywide [...] ... ....

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Franklin County infant-mortality rate drops, but black babies nearly 3 times more likely to die

The Columbus Dispatch 21 Sep 2018

While Franklin County's infant-mortality rate dipped in 2017, disparities worsened for African-American babies, who were nearly three times more likely to die than white babies.Babies also were at higher risk in eight Columbus neighborhoods — in the Hilltop, Franklinton, the Near South Side, the Near East Side, the Southeast Side, the ......

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Summit’s Focus: High Mortality Rates of Black Mothers, Infants

The Washington Informer 19 Sep 2018

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, just four months into parenthood with the adoption of a newborn named Miranda Elizabeth, welcomed six fellow African-American female mayors from across the country to the District this month for the first Maternal and Infant Health Summit ... and across the nation ... The Sept ... The event featured panel discussions and a luncheon geared towards articulating and sharing best practices for infant and maternal health ... .......

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Infant mortality rate flat in San Diego County but disparities remain for some

The San Diego Union-Tribune 14 Sep 2018

San Diego County’s infant mortality rate was flat in 2016, but significant disparities continue for African American babies, according to from the county Health and Human Services Agency. There were 3.7 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2016, the most recent year for which ... ....

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Aspen gets stinging rebuke for sell-off

Independent online (SA) 14 Sep 2018

Some market pundits deemed the price undervalued the business ... “We still have to look but the price for infant business could be lower,” said Wayne McCurrie from FNB Wealth and Investments as he tried to explain the plunge ... Aspen in 2013 acquired Nestlé SA’s infant nutrition businesses, which distributes a portfolio of infant nutrition products in Australia and certain southern African countries for $215m ... – BUSINESS REPORT ....

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South Africa's Aspen to sell infant formula unit to Lactalis for $864 mln

This is Money 13 Sep 2018

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Aspen Pharmacare is selling its global infant formula business to French dairy group Lactalis for 12.9 billion rand ($864.5 million), the African drugmaker said in a results statement on Thursday. The so-called nutritionals business sells infant milk formula in the ......

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South Africa's Aspen in talks to sell infant formula unit

This is Money 11 Sep 2018

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Aspen Pharmacare is in talks to sell its global infant formula business, it said on Tuesday, as the South African drug maker seeks to cash in on growing demand for baby milk. The business sells infant milk formula in the Asia-Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, and has a growing presence in the Middle East and China....

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'Striking' disparities in preemies' health may be bigger than thought, study suggests

The Philadelphia Tribune 11 Sep 2018

Additionally, Asian preterm infants were at an increased risk of retinopathy of prematurity, according to the study published on Monday in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics ... Now, the new study "really supports that that's not true, that in fact African-American infants do not do better and may even do worse than their white counterparts," Burris said....

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Land issue is about remedial action to all wounded

Independent online (SA) 11 Sep 2018

It was of families with infants ... They were accompanied by African women of up to three a couple ... First, I wonder, as a statistician-general, what advice I would give to African women who provide care as an increasingly professionalised skill of expats in the advent of robotics, ageing and child-minding. Second, what will African governments do in the ......

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Children rights charity wins $1 million humanitarian prize

Belleville News-Democrat 10 Sep 2018

The Balzan Foundation announced Monday that Terre des Hommes will receive 1 million Swiss francs ($1 million) for a project in the African nation of Mali to save infants during childbirth and ......

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Fighting Fascism and White Supremacy by Understanding History

truthout 01 Sep 2018

And then of course, we all know that slavery is a phenomenon in any case during that period — not only enslaving of Africans but of course, enslaving of other Europeans ... Then of course, we don’t even have to talk about the African slave trade the images are rampant of slave owners and slave traders ripping infants from the arms of weeping mothers and selling the mother down the river and selling the infant down another river....

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Breastfeeding campaign features Philly Black moms

The Philadelphia Tribune 31 Aug 2018

Black infants in the city are twice as likely to die as white infants ... This trend is not unique to Philadelphia — infant mortality rates among African Americans are notably higher nationwide ... While earlier theories suggested it had to do with education levels and poverty among African-American women, recent studies found that Black women are more likely to have preterm babies regardless of their educational attainment....

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Civil rights group to demonstrate in Westland Friday

Detroit news 22 Aug 2018

Detroit — A Detroit civil rights group said Wednesday’s plans to hold a protest Friday to decry an incident in which Westland police used a stun gun on an African-American man who was holding an infant. Rev. Charles E. Williams II, president of the National Action Networks’ Detroit chapter, said the group will hold its demonstration at noon in front of the Westland Police Department’s headquarters ... (Photo ... Read more ... Buy Photo ... (Photo ... .......

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