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Watoto is an organization that works to place orphaned infants and children in Uganda with families as well as empower women in the East African nation ... � .......

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US lawmakers unfairly target Egypt

Gulf News 07 Jan 2019

Those lawmakers, those people in glass houses with their faux concern for human rights thousands of miles away would do well to focus closer to home where schoolchildren fear mass shootings, unarmed African Americans risk being shot by trigger happy police and weeping infants are torn from their parents arms at the US border with Mexico ... Linda S ... ....

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Kamala Harris on mortality rates of black mothers: 'We can solve' this

The Hill 12 Dec 2018

Sen ... Harris, a rising star in the Democratic Party believed to have presidential aspirations, introduced the CARE Act in August aimed at reducing the disparity in maternal death rates between women of color and white women ... Hear them." ... Additionally, infants born to African-American mothers die at twice the rate of babies born to white mothers ... .......

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Letter: Doulas improve care for black mothers, infants

East Bay Times 11 Dec 2018

Doulas improve care forblack mothers, infants. The East Bay has a large black female population who face disparities in maternal care ... Related Articles. Letter ... This program would increase both efficiency and quality of prenatal care, resulting in better outcomes for African-American infants and mothers....

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Ohio’s overall infant mortality drops as black rate jumps

Springfield News-Sun 08 Dec 2018

As the overall infant mortality rate decreased, the rate for African Americans increased ... ....

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The battle to save Central African Republic's starving children

This is Money 06 Dec 2018

The scene at the paediatric complex in Bangui, capital of Central African Republic, is not dissimilar to a war zone ... In Central African Republic, infant mortality is the highest in the world, with two out of three children in need of humanitarian assistance, according to UNICEF....

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Final report issued from Race and Culture Task Force

Fort Worth Business Press 06 Dec 2018

No African-American officers serve in any of the following units. ... Only one African-American officer serves on the Special Response Team (44 total officers) ... The Tarrant County infant mortality is 9.6 African-American infant deaths per 1,000 live births were recorded in Tarrant County during 2015, versus 6.2 infant deaths per 1,000 overall....

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Dennis Murphy: Discourage smoking, save lives with smart public policy

Indianapolis Business Journal 30 Nov 2018

And African-American infants face worse odds, dying at a rate twice that of white infants. Only five states have higher rates of infant mortality than Indiana’s ... In a 2015 study, researchers found that increases in cigarette taxes and prices are associated with lower infant mortality rates, especially for African-American infants....

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Lactalis says no salmonella in baby milk at second production line

This is Money 30 Nov 2018

Lactalis has said the contamination originated in one production line which it has shut down permanently ... 2" ... 1 ... In addition to relaunching its second production line at Craon, Lactalis also plans to revive its baby milk activity through its acquisition of the infant nutrition business of South African drugmaker Aspen Pharmacare ... ....

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It Should Not Happen

Human Rights 29 Nov 2018

“It also reiterates its previous concern at the persistence of racial disparities in the field of sexual and reproductive health, particularly with regard to the high maternal and infant mortality rates among African American communities.” [448] The committee recommended that the ......

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Growing Up Milk Sales in Emerging Economies Gobble Over 50% Share of the Global Market, Unveils Fact.MR

Market Watch 26 Nov 2018

The study also finds new avenues of growth for growing up milk manufacturers in developing countries in the Asia Pacific and the Middle East & African region ... Over 5.4 million children aged 0-5 years succumbed to death in 2017, and the risks of children dying are highest in the African region, according to the World Health Organization....

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A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley: The new ‘Stoner’?

The Irish Times 17 Nov 2018

One of Kelley’s ingenious literary choices is to render Willson courageous and ethical in his own privileged white way, a man who regrets the nefarious means by which he tracked the African and who saves the man’s infant son from being bludgeoned to death by his father with a rock with his last breath....

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Babe Ruth is finally awarded Medal of Freedom. Family and fans wonder, 'What the heck ...

Union Leader 16 Nov 2018

For Ruth's family and a legion of historical admirers, their reaction is the same. It's about time ... Ruth skipped lunch at the Kansas City Athletic Club to visit sick children and posed for a photograph in the Kansas City Post cradling an emaciated infant. The image circulated among the nation's most prominent African American newspapers ... .......