'No drop' in world hunger deaths
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A child dies of hunger every five seconds, eight years on from a pledge to halve the world's hungry, a UN agency says.
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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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The United Nations' world food body  outlined steps on Monday meant to help the world's poorest  nations combat soaring food prices, including a new voucher  program for farmers and a review of food-guzzling biofuels.
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NAIROBI, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- The World Food Program (WFP) has said it was gearing up for a &quot;critical stage&#39;&#39; in delivering food assistance to hundreds of thousands of people affected by conflictin the western Sudanese region of Darfur.
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Drought, AIDS and chronic poverty in the landlocked southern African states of Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe are putting hundreds of thousands at risk of hunger, a U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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GENEVA - At least 70,000 people have died since March as a result of poor conditions in refugee camps in Sudan&#39;s Darfur, the United Nations health agency said Friday.
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A joint statement issued by the World Food Program and the UN Children&#39;s Fund says that without intervention, 1 million children face malnourishment within eight weeks.
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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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U.N. relief officials warned Monday that people affected by the south Asia earthquake and tsunami may be dying of hunger and disease because wrecked roads and bad communications are blocking the distribution of supplies.
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Rates of pregnancy-related deaths  in south Sudan are the highest in the world, a United Nations  Population Fund (UNFPA) official said.
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malnutrition and disease meant the monthly fatality rate was about 10,000. The previous overall death toll had stood at 50,000. People were dying despite the aid effort and the world
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More than 500 million people can  be lifted out of abject poverty, 250 million people will no  longer go to bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if  rich countries double development aid over the next 10 years, a  new U.N.-sponsored report said Monday.
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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 12 million families last year, about the same as in 2002, either didn't have enough food or worried about being able to feed everyone, the government reported Friday.
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In the Darfur region of western Sudan, nearly 10,000 people per month have lost their lives from malnutrition and disease adding up to 70,000 deaths since the crisis started in February of 2003.
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year in development aid to combat global hunger, but the United States has poured cold water on the project. &quot;The greatest scandal is not that hunger exists but that it persists even when we have the means to eliminate it.
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For the first time in nine years, the estimated number of people going hungry around the world has increased, reversing a trend and raising new questions about global inequities.