Malnutrition could kill 18,000 children a year in Benin by 2013
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Malnutrition could kill 18,000 children a year in Benin between now and 2013 unless hunger is made a public health priority, a health official said at a regional meeting on nutrition in Africa.
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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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At least 60 children are believed to have died in a measles outbreak in north-eastern Nigeria.
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Acute malnutrition among young children has nearly doubled since the U.S. led an invasion of the country 20 months ago, officials say.
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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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A child dies of hunger every five seconds, eight years on from a pledge to halve the world's hungry, a UN agency says.
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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.
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Over a million Bangladeshi children will face acute malnutrition if immediate actions are not taken during post-flood rehabilitation efforts, two UN agencies warned yesterday.
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ONE in 12 children worldwide died before their fifth birthday, with half of all such deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations reported yesterday in its annual survey of infant mortality.
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In the Darfur region of western Sudan, nearly 10,000 people per month have lost their lives from malnutrition and disease adding up to 70,000 deaths since the crisis started in February of 2003.
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Eighty-two people have died in a cholera epidemic in the Republic of Congo, according to figures from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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Hundreds of thousands of badly  malnourished children with limited access to hospital care,  could be given life-saving treatment at home with a  locally-made peanut butter based food, U.N. aid agencies said.
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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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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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Children are likely to be  undernourished in households where women are denied a voice in  family decisions like doctor visits, food expenditures and  trips to see friends and relatives, says a report by the U.N.  Children's Fund, UNICEF, released on Monday.
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The number of children dying from abuse could be much higher than previously thought, the NSPCC says.
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WAR, poverty and HIV/Aids are causing more than half of the worldâs children to suffer, effectively denying them a childhood, according to a report today.