Sierra Leone: Leader in Child Mortality
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A newborn in Sierra Leone has the lowest chance in the world of surviving until age 5, and the prospects are almost as bad for children in Angola and Afghanistan, Unicef said in its annual report.
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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 (WHO) said on Wednesday, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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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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LAGOS  - 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 (news - web sites) Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF (news - web sites
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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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BRUSSELS, Feb 27 (IPS) - Does the presence of Heineken beer in Sierra  Leone  contribute to reduction of child mortality? And to what extent  does  the chemicals company Akzo Nobel contribute to prevent  environmental  damage?
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DAKAR  - Africa needs to coordinate vaccination campaigns for its children on a regional level, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade told a conference on immunisation and child health.
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Child mortality rates are spiraling in  parts of Asia because of financially crippled public health  care systems, a U.N. report said on Friday.
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LONDON, Nov 17 (IPS) - Malaria is billed as top priority in a new health   initiative being launched in Africa this week.
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Cholera has killed 54 people in Sierra  Leone so far this month and the disease has spread to areas  with few medical facilities outside the capital Freetown, a  senior health ministry official said on Friday.
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Each year more than one million babies in sub-Saharan Africa die before they are a month old because of a lack of essential health care, a U.N. report said on Wednesday.
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Child mortality among China's rural poor and its millions of migrants remains high despite overall improvements, state media quoted the World Health Organisation as saying Friday.
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In its annual State of the World&#39;s Children report, UNICEF says half of the world&#39;s population of children suffer from poverty, violence or AIDS.
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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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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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About 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday, mostly 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 number of children dying from abuse could be much higher than previously thought, the NSPCC says.