At risk: 1,000,000,000 of the world&#39;s children
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They are a billion strong. Diseased, malnourished, uneducated, they are a people on the run from wars that take the lives of their brothers and sisters.
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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
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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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Science & environment: Tens of thousands of children could be diagnosed earlier and more cheaply after pioneering research.
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More than one million African babies do not survive their first month of life, the World Health Organisation says.
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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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Undernutrition is to blame for 3.5 million deaths among children aged under five each year, but most of the fatalities occur in 20 countries, where targeted aid programmes could swiftly address the problem, researchers say.
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Over a million Bangladeshi children will face acute malnutrition if immediate actions are not taken during post-flood rehabilitation efforts, two UN agencies warned yesterday.
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Adoptions are increasingly in the headlines around the world. Some Hollywood celebrities have been in the news recently for adopting children abroad, and there has been a renewed interest in the plight of orphaned children. What is the annual number of child adoptions worldwide?
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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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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.
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Lack of access to clean drinking water and proper sanitation kills 1.5 million children every year, Unicef says.
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The tragedy of the tsunami's child victims
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The head of UNICEF says some 10,000 people, or a third of those who died in Sri Lanka, were children.
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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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The UN highlights the plight of children orphaned by the tsunami disaster, some of whose lives are at risk.
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More than a million babies die across Africa every year in their first month of life, a hidden tragedy neglected by donor countries and African governments.