Differentials of Infant and Under-five mortality in the Sudan and its association with development and armed conflicts: Results from the Sudan Household Health Survey (SHHS).

Infant and child mortality has been long reflections of community health status and hence the level of development and welfare. During the past two decades, different geographical parts of Sudan were arguing the inequality of services distributions and some of them embarked on military movements. This study aimed to estimate level of infant and children less than five mortality in different Sudanese states and to assess whether these rates were associated with level of development and armed conflicts.
The paper is based on the (SHHS), which was conducted in 2006 and covered all states of Sudan even the troubled of it. The sample for the (SHHS) was designed to provide estimates on MDG’s indicators. From each state a sample of 1,000 households was drawn for the survey. Also additional secondary data on the economic growth were utilized from the Central Bureau of Statistics. The data were analyzed statistically using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The analysis involved frequency distributions and correlations; Chi-square test for independence as well as logistic regression were conducted.
The results showed that there a is appositive significant correlation between under-five mortality and the level of development in the Sudanese States. The estimates of neonatal, infant and under-5 mortality rates we