Children suffer when mother lacks input, UNICEF says
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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 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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Babies who continue to cry excessively for no obvious reason can go on to have difficulties in childhood, according to a new study.
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Thousands of underfed children could face starvation if rains do not bring relief to drought-ravaged regions of Guatemala soon, government officials and aid agencies said on Friday.
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Babies who cry excessively for no obvious reason can  have difficulties in childhood, researcher suggests.
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NKANGE, Botswana -- Doctors noticed two troubling things about the limp, sunken-eyed children who flooded pediatric wards across Botswana during the rainy season in early 2006: They were dying from diarrhea, a malady that is rarely fatal here. And few of their mothers were breast-feeding, a practice...
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Children in Afghanistan are increasingly at risk as the country's security situation deteriorates and the central government's authority is weakened, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Thursday.
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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- One in eight children in Indonesia's Aceh province are malnourished, disease still stalks refugee camps, and relief deliveries are erratic more than a month after a tsunami devastated the region, UN officials said yesterday.
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Undernutrition causes more than a third of child deaths worldwide, but simple programs like promoting breastfeeding and providing supplements could keep some of those children alive, experts said on Thursday.
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Today, even a world grown weary of shocking statistics and bad news will receive a number that jolts: half of all children in the world are deprived of the essentials for survival and are suffering a brutal childhood as a result.
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Like many mothers, Deborah Deatrick is often short on time, which makes it especially challenging to choose nutritious foods for her family.
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Increasing female feticide in India could spark a demographic crisis where fewer women in society will result in a rise in sexual violence and child abuse as well as wife-sharing, the United Nations warned.
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More must be done more quickly to make the world fit for children by 2015, the UN children's fund Unicef says.
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Serious illnesses in feverish children may be being missed because of the lack of face-to-face care, an expert says.
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Undernutrition causes more than a third  of child deaths worldwide, but simple programs like promoting  breastfeeding and providing supplements could keep some of  those children alive, experts said on Thursday.
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More than half the world's  countries are falling behind in a U.N. campaign to reduce child  deaths by two-thirds by 2015, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF  reported on Thursday.