Decline in breastfeeding linked to child deaths in Asia: UNICEF
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About 160,000 infants die each year in the Asia-Pacific region due to a decline in breastfeeding, a UNICEF expert told a regional conference on Wednesday.
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Breastfeeding for even a few months may lower the odds that a child will develop leukemia, a new research review suggests.
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The survival, rather than the rights, of  children must be the priority of UNICEF over the next decade  because 10 million children are dying every year -- many from  preventable causes, a medical journal said on Friday.
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PRETORIA -- 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 the 1980s and '90s have stalled in the past decade.
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About 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday from diseases that could be prevented with simple, affordable measures, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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The World Health Organization is spearheading a campaign to reduce the numbers of women who die in childbirth.
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Latin America has seen a decline in child mortality rate, but the situation in Iraq, countries of the former Soviet Union and those in sub-Saharan Africa has worsened over the
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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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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 Children's Fund (UNICEF) received by AFP.
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At least 10 people, mostly children, have died of pneumonia in Bangladesh, officials said, following the worst flooding in years and a UN warning that respiratory diseases could claim many young lives.
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Scientists now say  one-third of infant deaths are  because of premature births -- a much larger percentage than previously thought.
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The number of deaths worldwide among children under 5 dropped to a record low of 9.7 million in 2006, reflecting progress in areas such as malaria prevention, childhood immunizations and breastfeeding rates, global health officials said yesterday.
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Global efforts to promote childhood immunization, breast-feeding and anti-malaria measures have helped cut by nearly a quarter the death rate of children under age 5 since 1990, UNICEF said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - Breastfeeding in infancy appears to be associated with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes later in life, according to a quantitative analysis of published evidence conducted by investigators in the UK.
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Fewer people are living in extreme poverty in the East Asia-Pacific region, the World Bank said Tuesday.
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Women who breastfeed are less likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis than women who don't, according to a new report.
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Around 3.5 million children die every year because of lack of food or poor quality food, experts warn.