Honduras’ murder rate, the highest recorded in the world at 90 per 100,000 people per year, was often cited in the news media as a leading reason for die exodus of unaccompanied minors from that country to the United States in mid-2014 (Patton et al., In a positive development that demonstrates that the right investments can save lives, such deaths “among adolescents have declined significandy since 2000,” accoiding to the World Health Organization. “ This decline is particularly noticeable in the regions where maternal mortality rates are highest. The Southeast Asia, Eastern Mediterranean and African regions have seen declines of 57 per cent, 50 per cent and 37 per cent, respectively.”