Birth rate 'harms poverty goals'
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A UK parliamentary group concludes population growth threatens the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
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Support groups that discuss health issues during pregnancy and after childbirth can help to reduce infant and maternal deaths in poor countries, researchers said on Friday.
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Despite the near universal embrace of standards for protecting childhood, a new UNICEF report shows that more than half the world&#39;s children are suffering extreme deprivations from poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, conditions that are effectively denying
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More than one billion children, half of the world's population of children, suffer from poverty, violent conflict and the scourge of AIDS, the United Nations Children's Fund said in its annual report.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 14 (IPS) - Anti-poverty campaigners are concerned that a new  European Union proposal for improving development aid may not  result in sufficient extra money for health and education in poor  countries.
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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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The United Nations children&#39;s fund says that more than half the world&#39;s children are suffering the effects of poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, denying them a healthy and safe childhood.
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More than one billion children around the world face a brutal existence because of poverty, war and Aids, the UN children&#39;s agency reports.
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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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Goals set a decade ago to cut world  population growth and ensure women's rights could be missed  without greater resources and political will, a U.N. report  said on Wednesday.
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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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England's strategy to reduce teenage  pregnancies is working but the pace of decline is not enough to  meet its target of halving the rate of conceptions by the end  of the decade, scientists said on Friday.
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Action Medical Research claims that babies' lives are being put at risk by a lack of government funding.
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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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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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Despite an uptick in the birthrate, the country is still heading for demographic disaster
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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.