Africa 'lagging on child deaths'
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Unicef says there are huge regional differences on child mortality, with sub-Saharan Africa failing to progress.
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Fighting malaria as well as AIDS is on First lady Laura Bush's agenda as she tours Africa. While the former doesn't grab the same headlines, it far outstrips AIDS as the continent's biggest child killer, claiming one young life every 30 seconds.
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The United Nations Children&#39;s Fund released its annual report that showed that at least one billion children, half of the world&#39;s population of children, suffer from poverty, violent conflict and the scourge of AIDS.
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GENEVA  - Children with HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites) are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable drugs and the high cost of medicines adapted to their needs, the humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said.
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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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Ethiopia has reduced its child mortality rate by 40 percent over the last 15 years, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday.
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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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More than half of African children who die before the age of five are malnourished, a top African Health Organisation (AHO) official said at a west African regional meeting on nutrition.
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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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Economic growth does not always lead to better health or lower child mortality, new research suggests.
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NEW YORK, Sep 16 (IPS) - With HIV-infected children dying much faster than  adults â shockingly, one-half by their second birthday â doctors  are scrambling to design new treatment protocols that work even  in the most resource-poor settings.
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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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South Africa may lose the HIV battle as infection and death rates outpace treatment, Unicef warns.
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Nearly 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday from diseases from pneumonia to malaria, but simple affordable measures could save more lives, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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Bacterial infections of the blood, not  malaria, may be the biggest killer of children in sub-Saharan  Africa and many of the deaths could be prevented by simple  vaccinations, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of violence in Darfur camps, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.
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More than half the world's  countries are falling behind in a U.N. campaign to reduce child  deaths by two-thirds by 2015, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF  reported on Thursday.