UN Reports Progress on Health, Poverty
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LONDON Sept. 15, 2004 - Progress toward boosting the status of women and providing reproductive health care to all has been steady over the past decade, but billions more dollars are needed to reach goals
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A new U.N. report showed a sharp increase in child malnutrition rates compared with last year, despite the efforts of more than 12,000 relief workers.
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Authors of a public-health article in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (p 1984) are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS
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Widespread use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and state-of-the-art drugs have succeeded in cutting malaria deaths in half in two countries most heavily affected by the disease, the World Health Organization will report tomorrow.
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The United States is making progress toward the goal of reducing cigarette smoking and cleaning up indoor air, according to two reports published Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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President-elect Hifikepunye Pohamba says good health in a country contributes to its economic growth, while poor health can drive any nation into poverty.
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The annual report by UNAIDS - the United Nations organization dealing with AIDS â-nd the World Health Organization (WHO), released ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, shows a troubling rise in the prevalence of AIDS around the world.
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A new U.N. report showed a sharp increase in child malnutrition rates compared with last year, despite the efforts of more than 13,000 relief workers.
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Blog: The United Nations and a group of U.S. organizations work together to bring the latest medical information to health professionals in poor countries free via the Internet.
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More than 500 million people can  be lifted out of abject poverty, 250 million people will no  longer go to bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if  rich countries double development aid over the next 10 years, a  new U.N.-sponsored report said Monday.
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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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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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Child mortality among China's rural poor and its millions of migrants remains high despite overall improvements, state media quoted the World Health Organisation as saying Friday.
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The UN says fewer children under five are dying than ever before, partly due to increased immunisation.
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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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Tuesday, December 1 is World AIDS Day, and in anticipation of this event, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization has released a report documenting the increase in the spread of AIDS worldwide.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan  - Sudan's minister for humanitarian affairs said Thursday his government has made "serious progress" in improving security and humanitarian relief in the troubled region of Darfur, as a UN team prepared an assessment that could decide whether the African country would be penalized.