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This year in
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102,042 babies will be born Arizona Center of Health Services |
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More babies are born with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders than with Autism |
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4 or 5 of these babies will be HIV positive.
5/100,000: Center for Disease Control and Prevention 18 of these babies will be born with Spina Bifida. 20/100,000: Center for Disease Control and Prevention 28 of these babies will be born with Muscular Dystrophy. 1 in 3,200: Muscular Dystrophy Association 90 of these babies will have Down Syndrome. 1/1,000: Center for Disease Control 200 babies will have full Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. 19.5 per 10,000: Natl Org. of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome 800 more babies will have less obvious but just as serious Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 1/100: Teratology 1997 Nov;56(5):317-26 Total newborns affected by prenatal exposure to alcohol in Arizona: 1,000 babies with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). The comprehensive lifetime cost of just one baby with FAS could be as much as $5 million. FAS Community Resource Center The cost to taxpayers for treating Arizona residents with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and related disabilities is estimated to be $142 million each year. Community Based Assessment by Dr. Larry Burd. Annual Costs just for Special Education and Juvenile Justice in Arizona due to FASD each year is approximately $27 million.Community Based Assessment by Dr. Larry Burd. As noted by the Institute of Medicine's 1996 Report to Congress on FAS: "These incidence figures are offered not as established facts but to emphasize the magnitude of a problem that has serious implications - for the individual and for society. " From the Executive Summary of the IOM Report. | ||