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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:1294-1295
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

Perinatal epidemiology

Commentary: Mortality decline in Senegal

Ian M Timæus

Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP, UK.

Sub-Saharan Africa has become associated in the minds of many with news stories about famine, civil war, or hospitals overwhelmed by terminally ill AIDS patients. The continent's success stories receive less news attention. Delaunay et al. present results from a study documenting the reductions in infant and child mortality achieved in rural Senegal since the 1960s.1 In the Niakhar area, the probability of a child dying in the first five years of life in the mid-1960s remained 485 per 1000. Nationally, this proportion was around 300 per 1000.2,3 The former statistic, at least, represents a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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