Birth rate 'harms poverty goals'
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A UK parliamentary group concludes population growth threatens the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
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Government efforts to tackle child poverty are failing to help poor parents who work, a think tank says.
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LONDON, Sep 1 (IPS) - The state of reproductive health is getting worse   in several African countries, a new 'report card'  prepared for a London  meet reveals.
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The rising cost of privatised healthcare in Asia is behind a spike in child deaths in Cambodia and caused more than half the region to fall behind global goals to lower child mortality, a United Nations report warned.
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A push by developed nations could cut poverty in half within a generation, the UN says.
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More than 900,000 people in Scotland are living in poverty, including 240,000 children, a study warns.
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The United Nations children&#39;s fund says that more than half the world&#39;s children are suffering the effects of poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, denying them a healthy and safe childhood.
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The well-being of children in the UK is the worst among industrialised nations, a Unicef report says.
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Older women and migrant families boost births.
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The rate of growth in the minimum wage should be slowed to prevent it hitting employment, the government is told.
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New research gives mixed messages about the success of the government's attempt to reduce poverty.
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Child mortality rates are spiraling in  parts of Asia because of financially crippled public health  care systems, a U.N. report said on Friday.
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Men and women in developing  nations are marrying later, having fewer children and having  them later in life, U.N. demographers reported on Tuesday.
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Goals set a decade ago to cut world  population growth and ensure women's rights could be missed  without greater resources and political will, a U.N. report  said on Wednesday.
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WAR, poverty and HIV/Aids are causing more than half of the worldâs children to suffer, effectively denying them a childhood, according to a report today.
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More than 1 billion children suffer from poverty, war, and HIV/AIDS, a new UNICEF report says, indicating that gains in reducing child deaths in
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Authors of a public-health article in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (p 1984) are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS