Babies in Tigray dying at four times pre-war levels, says study

Babies are dying in their first month of life at four times the rate they did before the war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, according to a study (AP)

Babies in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are dying in their first month of life at four times the rate before the war cut off access to most medical care for more than five million people, according to the most sweeping study yet of how mothers and children are suffering.

Women are dying during pregnancy or within 42 days of giving birth at five times the rate before the war, and children under the age of five are dying at twice the pre-war rate, often because of easily preventable reasons, according to the yet-unpublished study shared by its authors with The Associated Press.