Africa 'lagging on child deaths'
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Unicef says there are huge regional differences on child mortality, with sub-Saharan Africa failing to progress.
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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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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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A baby born in Africa faces a harrowing struggle to survive even a day due to a lack of basic ante-natal care, a report by a group of international health organisations has said.
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A new study released by the United Nations Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF) indicates the West African nation of Sierra Leone has the world&#39;s highest rate of child mortality.
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Despite some progress,  sub-Saharan Africa is behind schedule on all its U.N.  Millennium Development Goals, which include halving extreme  poverty, halfway towards their target date, the world body  reported on Wednesday.
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of violence in Darfur camps, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.
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More than 10 million children under 5   years old die each year but two-thirds of those deaths could be   prevented with effective, cheap treatments that are already   available, health experts said on Monday.
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Geneva - Children with HIV and Aids are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable drugs and the high cost of medicines adapted to their needs, the humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday.
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Economic growth does not always lead to better health or lower child mortality, new research suggests.
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LISBON, Dec 13 (IPS) - War, AIDS, malaria, cholera and famine have  gradually turned Africa into a continent full of orphaned  children and teenagers.
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About 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday, mostly from diseases that could be prevented with simple, affordable measures, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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Millions of mothers, newborn babies and children die each year in Africa from preventable diseases despite promises of better healthcare by governments and donor countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
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Deaths of children under age five around the world dropped below 10 million for the first time last year, according to United Nations Children&#39;s Fund figures released Thursday.
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The death rate of children infected with HIV in Africa could be cut in half if they were put on an inexpensive antibiotic, according to a study published in The Lancet.
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LONDON, Dec 10 (IPS) - Poverty, conflict and HIV/AIDS are the biggest  threats to children's lives in developing countries, says a  new Unicef report.
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Bacterial infections of the blood, not  malaria, may be the biggest killer of children in sub-Saharan  Africa and many of the deaths could be prevented by simple  vaccinations, researchers said on Wednesday.