Nearly 40 pct of global births are unregistered: WHO
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Nearly 40 percent of the 128 million babies born worldwide every year are not officially registered, and two thirds of deaths also go undocumented, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
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WASHINGTON The population of many of the world&#39;s largest industrialized nations, including Japan, Germany, Italy and Russia, will decline between now and 2050 as low birth rates, struggling economies and curbs on immigration stifle growth, according to a ...
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Despite the near universal embrace of standards for protecting childhood, a new UNICEF report shows that more than half the world&#39;s children are suffering extreme deprivations from poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, conditions that are effectively denying
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One billion children - half the world&#39;s population of children - suffer from poverty, conflict, HIV and AIDS, according to the United Nations child rights organisation.
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The number of Americans known to  have been killed in the devastating tsunami has risen to 11 and  hundreds remain unaccounted for, Secretary of State Colin  Powell said on Tuesday, as the death toll across Asia  approached 40,000 people.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 11 (IPS) - Many developing countries are failing to decrease  the number of deaths in line with the Millennium Development  Goals, says a new World Bank report.
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Each year more than one million babies in sub-Saharan Africa die before they are a month old because of a lack of essential health care, a U.N. report said on Wednesday.
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Developing countries are making real gains in promoting reproductive health and womenâs rights, but they are hampered by inadequate support from rich nations and serious problems persist, Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations
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BRUSSELS, Sep 15 (IPS) - Developed countries are failing to live up to their  commitments to fund sexual and reproductive health care leaving  poorer countries to pick up the bill, says a new UN report  released Wednesday.
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Japan is expected to report fewer babies  born in 2007, a government report said on Tuesday, kicking off  the new year with a bleak reminder of the long-term risks the  economy faces as its population ages at an unprecedented pace.
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NAIROBI  - Giving birth in poor countries proves fatal for more than half a million women every year, or one every minute, the World Health Organisation said, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - Adoption hotlines around the  world have been jammed with callers since the Asian tsunami on  Dec. 26 orphaned thousands of children, but experts and aid  agencies are telling would-be parents they may be disappointed.
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WASHINGTON Nov 23, 2004 - More than a quarter of the babies born in the United States last year were delivered by Caesarean section, a record high for the surgical method that is a controversial subject among both obstetricians and mothers.
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The United Nations children&#39;s fund says that more than half the world&#39;s children are suffering the effects of poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, denying them a healthy and safe childhood.
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LONDON, Sep 1 (IPS) - The state of reproductive health is getting worse   in several African countries, a new 'report card'  prepared for a London  meet reveals.
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Seven thousand fewer girls are born  in India each day than the global average would suggest,  largely because female fetuses are aborted after sex  determination tests, the United Nations Children's Fund  (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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