Collaborative project aims to spread infant safe sleep messages
and share other health information in Native communities Since
the Back to Sleep campaign began in 1994, the Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome (SIDS) rate in the United States has decreased by
more than 50 percent. This decrease occurred not only in the
overall U.S. SIDS rate, but also in the SIDS rates for different
racial/ethnic groups. The decrease is more than just a number—it
represents thousands of infant lives. While the lower SIDS rates
are a great accomplishment, there is still work to do to help
improve the health of U.S. infants. SIDS remains the leading
cause of death among infants between 1 month and 1 year of age.
And infants in certain ethnic groups remain at higher risk for
SIDS than white infants. For example, American Indian/Alaska
Native infants have the highest SIDS rates in the United States
and are nearly three times more likely to die of SIDS as are
white infants. In addition, /AN SIDS rates among American
Indians/Alaska Natives