Poverty, war, HIV affect over 1 billion children, UNICEF says
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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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Hunger and malnutrition kill more than 5 million children each year and cost developing countries billions of dollars in lost productivity, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) annual hunger report.
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Political leaders the world over are failing the most vulnerable of their people -- children, the UN child rights organization UNICEF said on Thursday.
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Lack of power for women in the home increases poverty and harms children, says the Unicef annual report.
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Media in the Middle East and North Africa, with one of the fastest AIDS growth rates, needs to help combat the epidemic by fighting cultural taboos, a U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) official said on Tuesday.
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Undernutrition is to blame for 3.5 million deaths among children aged under five each year, but most of the fatalities occur in 20 countries, where targeted aid programmes could swiftly address the problem, researchers say.
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Zimbabwe now has the world's highest  percentage of children orphaned by AIDS, with almost one in  every four children having lost at least one parent to the  disease, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Tuesday.
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More than one million African babies do not survive their first month of life, the World Health Organisation says.
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The number of children dying worldwide has dropped below 10 million a year for the first time, UNICEF said Thursday.
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Unicef, the UN agency with the task of ensuring children&#39;s survival, was accused yesterday of not doing enough to prevent the suffering and death of millions of youngsters around the world.
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Marked divisions in children's well-being  in 21 industrialised countries are  highlighted in a Unicef report.
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of violence in Darfur camps despite a big international aid effort, the World Health Organization said Monday.
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More than half the world's  countries are falling behind in a U.N. campaign to reduce child  deaths by two-thirds by 2015, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF  reported on Thursday.
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More than one billion children around the world face a brutal existence because of poverty, war and Aids, the UN children&#39;s agency reports.
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The HIV/Aids pandemic is the worst catastrophe in history and is blighting childhood across the developing world, especially sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations said yesterday.
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of violence in Darfur camps, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.
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More than half the world's children face a brutal existence because of poverty, war and Aids, says Unicef.