Poor sanitation kills 5,000 children a day: report
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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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Hunger and malnutrition kill more than 5 million children each year and cost developing countries billions of dollars in lost productivity, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) annual hunger report.
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Giving birth in poor countries proves fatal for more than half a million women every year, or one every minute, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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At least 53 people have died of cholera since mid-November in the Republic of Congo, according to official figures released Sunday. Local officials said they believed the real toll was much higher.
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NAIROBI, Oct 8 (IPS) - First, the good news: while nearly one in five  children was dying before the age of five in the early 1960s,  this figure had dropped to less than one in 12 by 2002.
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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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More than half the world&#39;s children are denied their childhood as a result of HIV/AIDS, poverty and war according to the State of the World Children&#39;s report 2005 launched in Suva today.
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More than 10 children have died of diarrhoea or dysentery in the storm-battered Philippines and fears of further sickness as well as an outbreak of malaria are rising due to the wet conditions and a lack of clean drinking water, UN agencies warned.
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War, disease and malnutrition are  killing 45,000 Congolese every month in a conflict-driven  humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million victims in  nearly a decade, a survey released on Tuesday said.
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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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More than one billion people drink  unsafe water and over 2.6 billion, around 40 percent of the  world's population, have no access to basic sanitation, U.N.  agencies said on Thursday.
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Around 3.5 million children die every year because of lack of food or poor quality food, experts warn.
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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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A suicide car bomb killed five children and six neighborhood patrol volunteers on the outskirts of Baghdad on Monday, an Interior Ministry source said.
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More than half the world's children are suffering the effects of poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, denying them a healthy and safe childhood, UNICEF's annual report said Thursday.
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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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About 460,000 Chinese die prematurely each year from breathing polluted air and drinking dirty water, according to a World Bank study.