Malnutrition spreads faster in Tiger territory: UN agency
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The United Nations World Food Program says malnutrition was spreading at an alarming rate in Sri Lanka's Tamil rebel-held regions with nearly one in five children suffering stunted growth.
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The United Nations warned on Monday of epidemics within days unless health systems in south and southeast Asia can cope after some 12,000 people were killed and tens of thousands left homeless by giant tsunami waves.
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UNITED NATIONS: A global effort to fight poverty with better population management that UN officials once hoped could &quot;change the world&quot; has made limited progress after one decade, a new UN study said on Wednesday.
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Infectious diseases are spreading faster than ever, the World Health Organization annual report says.
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Iraq has appealed to the United Nations to play a more active role in the country, and for the international community to speed up the distribution of reconstruction aid.
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Following last week&#39;s massacre of at least 160 Congolese Tutsis at a refugee camp near Burundi&#39;s border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Burundian government is speeding up efforts to help the United Nations set up more secure camps in the
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The number of victims of the  Asian tsunami needing food stands at 1.8 million and could rise  further, a United Nations official said on Sunday.
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A push by developed nations could cut poverty in half within a generation, the UN says.
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As aid agencies struggled to cope with the scale of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, the UN today warned that the next few days would be critical in the fight to control potential outbreaks of disease.
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The number of malnutrition cases recorded by hospitals rises for the fourth year in a row, figures show.
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The United Nations' food relief agency is gearing up for a "critical stage" in feeding refugees in western Sudan as more people flee ethnic violence there and the rainy season peaks, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
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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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The United Nations warned on Monday of  epidemics within days unless health systems in southern Asia  can cope after more than 14,000 people were killed and hundreds  of thousands left homeless by a giant tsunami.
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Some 2.6 billion people in the   world, mainly in Africa and Asia, lack access to basic   sanitation, increasing the risk of diarrhea and other diseases   fatal to children, said a U.N. report released on Thursday.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Malnutrition is increasing in Sudan's violence-wracked Darfur region along with lawlessness and the number of people fleeing their homes, a senior U.N. official said Friday.
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Some 400,000 Mauritanians need food aid after last year's locust invasions, the UN says.
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Child malnutrition in Somalia is at critical levels due to violence and lack of access for aid workers, the U.N. children's agency said on Wednesday.