2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation: U.N. report
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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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ROME -- The world is losing the battle against hunger, with the number of malnourished people in developing nations estimated at more than 800 million people and rising, according to a UN report yesterday.
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Cases of diarrheal illness are being reported across tsunami-ravaged areas of South Asia, and World Health Organization authorities estimated yesterday that as many as 5 million survivors of the calamity are at dire risk of disease because they lack basic necessities for survival: water, sanitation, shelter, and food.
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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 United Nations warned on Monday of epidemics within days unless health systems in southern Asia can cope after more than 15,500 people were killed and hundreds of thousands left homeless by a giant tsunami.
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Without a massive rise in investment,   the world will fail to deliver on a pledge to halve the   percentage of people without access to safe drinking water and   basic sanitation by 2015, two U.N. agencies said on Tuesday.
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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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JOHANNESBURG -- For the first time, more than half of the world's population has water piped into their homes, according to a United Nations report released today, an accomplishment hailed as a &quot;stunning success&quot; by a senior World Health Organization official.
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Five thousand children die every day  globally because they do not have access to clean toilets,  health experts said on Tuesday.
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Lack of food and education still afflict millions of children around the world, with nearly 10 million youngsters under age 5 dying each year from preventable diseases, the U.N. children's agency said Sunday.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, a "terrible indictment of the world in 2007," the head of the UN food agency said.
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The United Nations children fund expressed alarm over the widespread use of baby milk in the Philippines, saying that lack of breastfeeding leads to diseases and deaths.
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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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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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A local group is sparking a quiet sanitary revolution that the World Bank and UN call a model for other developing countries.
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In its annual State of the World&#39;s Children report, UNICEF says half of the world&#39;s population of children suffer from poverty, violence or AIDS.
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over half the children in the world - suffer extreme deprivation because of war, HIV/AIDS or poverty, according to a report released yesterday by the United Nations Children&#39;s Fund.