Claim: Ever since sanctions … 56 children per 1000 births die, up from 38/1000.
Fact-check: No, sanctions have not led to the increase of infant mortality rates in Zim - FactCheckZW
Verdict: the claim by rutendo matinyarare that 'ever since sanctions … 56 children per 1000 births die, up from 38/1000' has been rated as false. data from the zimbabwe government through surveys carried out by zimstat, shows that the infant mortality rate has actually come down from a high of 60 at the time of the imposition of sanctions  to an all time low of 24.2 when the census was conducted in 2022, not 56, as reported by matinyarare.
Organisation: FactCheckZW
Author: Lifaqane Nare
Date published: 2023-10-04T10:02:01