Given the high asthma rates in low-income neighborhoods and soaring infant mortality in Harlem, it is essential that these clinics remain open.
Jerry Mitchell of The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson won the state reporting award for coverage of lapses by the Mississippi State Health Department, including unreported outbreaks of tuberculosis, syphilis infections and a soaring infant mortality rate, the nation's highest.
Add to that the chaos of conflict, forcing women to pack up and run from here to there and back again to avoid flying bullets, daily struggles to keep their children alive amid food shortages, no access to health care, soaring maternal mortality rates, and total breakdown of access to livelihoods and coping mechanisms, all in the face of rampant sexual violence.
Lesotho has experienced a soaring maternal mortality rate in the past five years - a trend that the minister attributes in part to a rise in back-street abortions and complications in pregnancy.
The Times regularly reports on the legacy of the United Nations' failures on women's rights in its coverage of the sexual violence in Congo, the soaring rates of maternal mortality in poor countries and the burden that H.I.V.-AIDS places on Africa's women.
But while the ongoing media carnival shows political angling and compares the failings of our system (soaring costs, high infant mortality rate, not the highest life expectancy) compared to what other countries offer, http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2009/03/09/healthcare/ no coverage offers us any hope of a better system to come.
Infant mortality soared, huge families lived in excruciating poverty and thousands of unwanted kids were sent to orphanages.
By 1999, the child immunization rate was as low as 5 per cent, and the infant and maternal mortality soared.
At the time, the AIDS and crack epidemics were ravaging New York City's poor, and infant mortality rates were soaring.
