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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At least 110 million children live in poverty in Latin America, according to a global report issued Thursday by the United Nations Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF).
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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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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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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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NEW YORK  - A combination of environmental and nutritional programs that target the poor can substantially reduce childhood mortality globally, new research suggests.
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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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Worldwide deaths from measles have fallen by two-thirds since 2000, the result of stepped-up immunization efforts and the distribution of vitamin A capsules in developing countries, a partnership of five health organizations said yesterday.
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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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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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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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Two UN agencies warn that a decline in breastfeeding is lowering babies' survival rate in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Tooth decay among children is at its lowest recorded level since 1983, figures show.
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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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UNICEF (news - web sites)&#39;s Executive Director Carol Bellamy sits in a meeting at the United Nations (news - web sites) in New York, December 30, 2004.
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Fewer children under five are dying than ever before, partly due to immunisation campaigns, the UN says.
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More than half the world's children face a brutal existence because of poverty, war and Aids, says Unicef.