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IN
THE THREE YEARS FOLLOWING THE US INVASION, 151,000 IRAQIS WERE KILLED BY
VIOLENCE, ACCORDING TO A UNITED NATIONS: 09/01/08
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UNITED
NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / - 09
January 2007 --An extensive survey by the Iraqi Government and the
World Health Organization discovered that from March 2003 to June 2006
approximately 151,000 Iraqis died due to violence, a significantly higher number
than previously believed.
“Our
survey estimate is three times higher that the death toll detected through
careful screening of media reports by the Iraq Body Count project and about four
times lower than a smaller-scale household survey conducted earlier in 2006,”
WHO country representative Naeema Al Gasseer said.
Study
co-author Mohamed Ali, a WHO statistician, noted that death toll assessments in
conflicts are extremely difficult and survey results have to be interpreted with
caution. “However, in the absence of comprehensive death registration and
hospital reporting, household surveys are the best we can do,” he said.
The
findings, published today on the web site of the New England Journal of
Medicine, are based on information collected in a wider survey of family health
in Iraq, designed to help the Government develop health polices and services.
They are based on interviews with 9,345 households in nearly 1,000
neighbourhoods and villages across the country.
Despite
the large study, uncertainty inherent in such estimates led researchers to
conclude that the toll lies between 104,000 and 223,000. The study found that
violence became the leading cause of death for adults after March 2003. On
average 128 Iraqis per day died of violent causes in the first year following
the invasion, falling to 115 per day in the second year of the study and rising
again to 126 per day in the third year, with more than half of the deaths
occurring in Baghdad.
The
survey also tracked health indicators such as pregnancy history, mental health
status, chronic illness, smoking habits, sexually transmitted infections,
domestic violence and health-care spending patterns.
A
notable finding was the worrying low rate – 57 per cent – of women who said
they had heard of AIDS. That compares with 84 per cent in Turkey and Egypt, 91
per cent in Morocco, and 97 per cent in Jordan.
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