UNICEF warns 300,000 Nigerian children may die of vitamin A ...
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LAGOS  - More than 300,000 children in Nigeria could die between now and 2014 if the level of vitamin A in their food is not increased, according to a report by the United Nations (news - web sites) Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF (news - web sites
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MONDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Global experts on child health are meeting in New York City on Monday to discuss an ongoing tragedy: the fact that 10.5 million children under the age of five die each year.
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Children with AIDS are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable and adapted medicines. On World AIDS Day, December 1, MSF is calling on the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF and national governments
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Some 2.6 billion people in the   world, mainly in Africa and Asia, lack access to basic   sanitation, increasing the risk of diarrhea and other diseases   fatal to children, said a U.N. report released on Thursday.
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In Sierra Leone, one in four children dies before age 5. In Iraq, one in 10 does not make it to a fifth birthday. Across the globe, poor care for newborns, malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and measles snuff out lives of the very young, according to a U.N. report released Friday.
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One million child survivors of Asia's devastating tsunami face major risks in the coming weeks from malnutrition, disease and human traffickers, the United Nations children's fund UNICEF warned.
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In its annual State of the World&#39;s Children report, UNICEF says half of the world&#39;s population of children suffer from poverty, violence or AIDS.
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At least 60 children are believed to have died in a measles outbreak in north-eastern Nigeria.
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The humanitarian agency, Oxfam, predicts that 45 million children will die in the next decade because rich countries have failed to meet their aid promises.
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News of an effective vaccine against malaria being developed is certainly a shot in the arm for the fight against this disease which kills over a million children and infects an estimated 300 million annually.
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CARELESS use of vitamins, taken by millions in the belief that they promote good health, could be causing thousands of premature deaths, scientists have warned.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, a "terrible indictment of the world in 2007," the head of the UN food agency said.
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Thousands of people could be dying prematurely from vitamin supplements, researchers report today, stating that the pills increase the death rate of those who take them by 6 per cent.
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Research showed that daily doses of the vitamin above 400 international units (iu) were associated with an increased risk of early death.
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Nearly 9.7 million children die each  year before their fifth birthday from diseases from pneumonia  to malaria, but simple affordable measures could save more  lives, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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High-dose vitamin E supplements taken daily can increase a person&#39;s risk of premature death, researchers said Wednesday. People who take daily doses of 400 international