For example, the neonatal mortality rate— that's the number of newborns who die before their first month birthday— was 10 times higher than that of the UK.
When she had finished her prayers for those beneath the roof of Tara, her father, mother, sisters, three dead babies and " all the poor souls in Purgatory, " she clasped her white beads between long fingers and began the Rosary.
As they left extreme poverty and girls got education, parents no longer had to compensate for child death by having many babies. And a large family stopped being an economic necessity or a social status symbol.
The study found that many of the estimated 2 million stillbirths and new-borne deaths which occur every year in Sub-Sahara Africa are linked to the mother having such infections.
The rate is now at 68 per 1,000, this means that hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian children who might have died in earlier years now reach their fifth birthday.
When the crucial time came, the thing failed in a perfectly inexplicable way; it was as if some unseen influence had been working secretly against him.
Researchers scrutinized bedroom camera footage of Rosie and several other children, uncovering a potential cause of their premature demise — a brief set of seizures.
Was the tiny grave that reporter Bill Case found just the grave of a child dead from meningitis whose family had left in a hurry before they were able to put a suitable grave marker in place?
Written around 1599 and 1600, it is Shakespeare's longest play and arguably his finest, one in which the bard inverted the grief over his son's death, by having Prince Hamlet grieve the death of his father.