One in 4 Zimbabwe children are AIDS orphans: UNICEF
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Zimbabwe now has the world's highest  percentage of children orphaned by AIDS, with almost one in  every four children having lost at least one parent to the  disease, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Tuesday.
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PRETORIA -- More than 1 billion children suffer from poverty, war, and HIV/AIDS, a new UNICEF report says, indicating that gains in reducing child deaths in the 1980s and '90s have stalled in the past decade.
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More than 50 percent of children in refugee camps around Africa's volatile Great Lakes area have experienced some form of sexual abuse, a humanitarian group said in report Monday.
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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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Children displaced, often orphaned, by tsunami, earthquakes and other disasters made last year a particularly sordid one for their exploitation as cheap labor or sexual victims, the government said Wednesday.
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A staggering ten percent of Ethiopia's 46 million children are orphans whose parents died of AIDS, poverty and poor health conditions, a new report said Monday.
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More than 2 million children under the age of 15 are living with HIV, almost all in sub-Saharan Africa where there is no access to treatment and death almost certain, seven leading child advocacy organizations said.
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At least 20 Zimbabwean children have died over the past two weeks after an outbreak of diarrhoea hit the southern town of Kadoma, reports said Friday.
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The HIV/Aids pandemic is the worst catastrophe in history and is blighting childhood across the developing world, especially sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations said yesterday.
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Millions of children live in poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia despite economic growth there, a UN report says.
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Pop diva Madonna arrived in Malawi on  Wednesday to adopt an African child and fund an orphan center  for 1,000 children, many of whom lost parents to AIDS.
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Pop diva Madonna adopted a young boy  in Malawi on Wednesday and moved ahead with plans to fund a  center for 1,000 orphans, many of whom lost parents to AIDS in  the impoverished African nation.
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NEW YORK  - The United Nations (news - web sites)&#39; Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF (news - web sites)) hailed a study done in Zambia on a cheap, common antibiotic that greatly reduces the death rate among children with the AIDS (news - web sites) virus as &quot;a
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Media in the Middle East and North  Africa, with one of the fastest AIDS growth rates, needs to  help combat the epidemic by fighting cultural taboos, a U.N.  Children's Fund (UNICEF) official said on Tuesday.
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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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Zimbabwe now has the world's highest percentage of children orphaned by AIDS, with almost one in every four children having lost at least one parent to the disease, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Tuesday.
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More than one billion children around the world face a brutal existence because of poverty, war and Aids, the UN children&#39;s agency reports.