Poor sanitation kills 5,000 children a day: report
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Five thousand children die every day globally because they do not have access to clean toilets, health experts said on Tuesday.
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Some 1.6 million people, mainly small  children, die each year from a "kitchen killer" -- disease  brought on by inhaling smoke from cooking stoves and indoor  fires, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
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Some 2.6 billion people in the   world, mainly in Africa and Asia, lack access to basic   sanitation, increasing the risk of diarrhea and other diseases   fatal to children, said a U.N. report released on Thursday.
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More than 10 children have died of diarrhoea or dysentery in the storm-battered Philippines and fears of further sickness as well as an outbreak of malaria are rising due to the wet conditions and a lack of clean drinking water, UN agencies warned.
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Sitting amid mounds of rotting garbage in a rubbish dump in Baghdad, 13-year-old Huda Hamdan is the human face of a new U.N. report that says a third of war- torn Iraq's 26 million people live in poverty.
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(CBS) The statistics are frightening: One child in the US dies from choking on food every five days, according to the National SAFE KIDS Campaign and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Indian police say at least 5,000 people are believed to have been killed by the weekend tsunami that struck the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, the Press Trust (PTI) of India reported on Tuesday.
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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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Numbers don't lie &#151; or do they? When it comes to public health, figures are seldom straightforward. Last week, UNICEF announced what it described as a "major public health success": child deaths dropped to a record low of 9.7 million worldwide in 2005.
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Nearly 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday from diseases from pneumonia to malaria, but simple affordable measures could save more lives, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe  - Five-year-old Zimbabwean  Felicita Munyoro fiddles with a soda can as she plays with  friends, then bends to fill it with the murky contents of a  burst sewage pipe flowing past her house, oblivious to the foul  smell and the health dangers that lurk.
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NAIROBI, Oct 8 (IPS) - First, the good news: while nearly one in five  children was dying before the age of five in the early 1960s,  this figure had dropped to less than one in 12 by 2002.
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NAIROBI  - 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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More than half the world's children face a brutal existence because of poverty, war and Aids, says Unicef.
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Indian police say at least 5,000  people are believed to have been killed by the weekend tsunami  that struck the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, the Press  Trust (PTI) of India reported on Tuesday.
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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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Almost half of the world's   population, mainly in Africa and Asia, lack access to basic   sanitation, increasing the risk of diarrhea and other diseases   fatal to children, according to a U.N. report released on   Thursday.