But there are rays of hope, and thanks to the introduction of rapid diagnostic tests and combination treatments, Senegal has seen large drops in both reported cases and mortality rates.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

Also,the study says the United States fell from thirty-fourth to forty-ninth in female mortality and from forty-first to forty-fifth for men.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

But he points to growing inequalities in adult mortality -- a "massive spread" between countries with the highest rates and those with the lowest.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Listen to these lines from "Song of Myself": And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

"The group that had the training initially had a fifty percent greater reduction in their mortality rate and that was greater reduction than the control group, the group that didn't have the training initially."

VOA: special.2010.10.20

"And for women,we found that morbidity played a greater role, but for men, mortality played a greater role."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"The difference is the developing countries have focused on public health, prevention and primary and prenatal care in the area of maternal mortality."

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

Mariam Ndiaye Coulibaly, the group's representative to Senegal, applauded the country's progress with regards to reducing child mortality and improving access to school.

VOA: standard.2009.11.22

For example, there may be a correlation between maternal mortality and Caesarean births, or so-called "C-Sections."

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

"It found that in Badakhshan the maternal mortality issue was 6,500 per 100,000 live births and that is the highest ever documented in human history."

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

Health officials in New York say the maternal mortality rate in the United States itself rivals that of poorer developed countries like Singapore and Ireland.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

This year's report focuses on how well countries are doing in reaching eight-stated Millennium Development Goals, including cutting poverty by half and reducing child and maternal mortality.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

And with that innovation, she has reduced infant mortality by 50 percent already."

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

"Mortality disparities were noted for all four major U.S.racial and ethnic minorities groups."

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

Clinton said Haiti leads the Western Hemisphere in unemployment and infant mortality, yet the Caribbean state's future is by no means hopeless if it receives properly-targeted international support.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

"For most African countries, that are still highly indebted and dependent on aid for their revenues, the continuation of the current crisis will mean increased starvation, poverty and child mortality,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.10

Across the spectrum of health and health care including mortality, access to care and use of services, prevention,population health, health status,adolescent health, chronic diseases, special health care needs and organ transplantation.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

Dr.Jo Boufford, president of the New York Academy of Medicine, which sponsored the maternal mortality conference where the report was released, says the developed and the developing worlds tend to promote different strategies to fight maternal death.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23