UNICEF says child deaths down sharply since 1990
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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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For the first time since record keeping began in 1960, the number of deaths of young children around the world has fallen below 10 million a year, Unicef reported.
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Around 3.5 million children die every year because of lack of food or poor quality food, experts warn.
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More than half the world's children face a brutal existence because of poverty, war and Aids, says Unicef.
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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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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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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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One billion children - half the world&#39;s population of children - suffer from poverty, conflict, HIV and AIDS, according to the United Nations child rights organisation.
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Alarming numbers of young children are dying in Angola four years after the southern African country's long-running civil war ended, a report by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said.
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Thousands of children are at risk of dying from malnutrition in central and southern areas of Somalia formerly considered the country&#39;s breadbasket, the UN Children Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday.
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Britain is the worst country in the industrialized world in which to be a child, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday.
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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 U.N. food agency said.
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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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The UK is bottom of a league table for child well-being across 21 industrialised countries, Unicef says.
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Giving birth in poor countries proves fatal for more than half a million women every year, or one every minute, the World Health Organisation said, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned that the number of young Iraqi children suffering from acute malnutrition has nearly doubled since the March 2003 invasion, as health and living conditions have deteriorated.
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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