<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ae9fbf9e-083e-4de8-bfc8-9971a698f07f/6BB79BB4-A479-4859-97BC-C68910FF1980/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/afghanistan_children_health_dc" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/afghanistan_children_health_dc" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/afghanistan_children_health_dc"><H1> <DIV class="source"> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/reuters/brand/SIG=pd7i95;_ylt=AklA_2WlZwz5eSB1iWYz9c0R.3QA/*http://www.reuters.com"><IMG height="27" border="0" width="94" alt="Reuters" src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/p/reuters_logo_94.png" /></A> </DIV> Afghan child mortality linked to uneducated mothers </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/afghanistan_children_health_dc"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/24E4B436-64B3-4C67-AE5A-CD78F03BE8ED" alt="Afghan children study the basics for learning Koran in an open half-built mosque on the outskirts of Kabul, June 11, 2008. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/afghanistan_children_health_dc"><P> HONG KONG (Reuters) - High <SPAN id="lw_1220082959_0" class="yshortcuts">child mortality rates</SPAN> in conservative <SPAN id="lw_1220082959_1" class="yshortcuts">Afghanistan</SPAN> are linked not just to war but to mothers being uneducated and having little or no say when their children need medical help, a study has found. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/afghanistan_children_health_dc">2,474 children from 1,327 households in <SPAN id="lw_1220082959_3" class="yshortcuts">Kabul province</SPAN> found that diarrhoea (32.5 percent), <SPAN id="lw_1220082959_4" class="yshortcuts">acute respiratory infection</SPAN> (41 percent), emaciation (12.4 percent) and stuntedness (39.9 percent) were among the most common health problems</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/afghanistan_children_health_dc">mothers are subject to a number of restrictions in the decision-making process regarding child healthcare</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/afghanistan_children_health_dc">problems correlated most closely with mothers not having any autonomy (79.1 percent) and education (71.7 percent)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/afghanistan_children_health_dc">Up to 18.3 percent of the mothers also delivered their first child before they were 16, which meant they were married when they were still children</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/afghanistan_children_health_dc">one out of every five Afghan children (or 191 out of every 1,000 <SPAN id="lw_1220082959_2" class="yshortcuts">live births</SPAN>) will not survive beyond age five</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6BB79BB4-A479-4859-97BC-C68910FF1980/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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