War, poverty and Aids causing half of world&#39;s children to suffer
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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.
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War, poverty and diseases such as AIDS are adding to mental health problems in poorer countries, which are generally ill-equipped to respond to depression, schizophrenia and other such ailments, according to health officials.
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This yearâs global celebration of World AIDS Day focuses on women and girls who form almost half of the estimated 37.5 million people living with the human immnunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV-AIDS).
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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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Zimbabwe now has the world's highest percentage of children orphaned by AIDS, with almost one in every four children having lost at least one parent to the disease, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Tuesday.
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More than half of African children who die before the age of five are malnourished, a top African Health Organisation (AHO) official said at a west African regional meeting on nutrition.
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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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The UN children&#39;s agency Saturday called upon eastern and southern African nations, where more than eight million children live in dire poverty, to fight the boom in child trafficking on a war footing.
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Millions of children live in poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia despite economic growth there, a UN report says.
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Around 3.5 million children die every year because of lack of food or poor quality food, experts warn.
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Hunger and malnutrition are killing more than five million children a year, with Africa bearing the brunt in human lives, and costing developing nations billions of dollars in lost productivity, according to the UN food agency's annual hunger report.
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The humanitarian agency, Oxfam, predicts that 45 million children will die in the next decade because rich countries have failed to meet their aid promises.
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Nearly half of India's children are malnourished, putting the country in the same league as some of the world's poorest countries &#151; even though fewer infants are dying and more pregnant Indian women are seeing doctors, according to government data released Friday.
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Women and girls should be the focal point of the global war against HIV/AIDS, foreign and local officials said here on Friday. &quot;One of the objects most affected by HIV/AIDS is
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Marked divisions in children's well-being  in 21 industrialised countries are  highlighted in a Unicef report.
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ROME - Extreme poverty threatens the lives of more than a billion children around the world, according to a report from the United Nations children&#39;s agency.
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The tragedy of the tsunami's child victims