Report: Malaria Deaths Drop in Rwanda, Kenya
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Widespread use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and state-of-the art drugs have succeeded in cutting malaria deaths in half in two countries most heavily affected by the disease, the World Health Organization will report tomorrow.
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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.
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War, refugee crises and large-scale rape of women in sub-Saharan African nations have not spawned higher HIV infection rates in this region hard hit by AIDS, according to a study contradicting a common belief.
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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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HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Cases of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus have declined dramatically in Pennsylvania so far this year. The state Department of Environmental Protection said four Pennsylvanians have contracted
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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 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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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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President Bush on Thursday added eight more countries to a U.S. initiative aimed at combatting malaria in Africa and reducing the disease's mortality rate by 50 percent in targeted nations.
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New Delhi, Oct. 16 (NNN): Scientists have announced a major breakthrough in the war on malaria, reporting promising results from a test vaccine which could slash the toll of death, sickness and poverty inflicted by this disease.
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Latin America has seen a decline in child mortality rate, but the situation in Iraq, countries of the former Soviet Union and those in sub-Saharan Africa has worsened over the
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Southern Africa could be facing a heightened risk of malaria this year, the World Heath Organization warns.
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African babies -- the group most at risk of dying from malaria -- may be protected against the mosquito-borne disease by an experimental vaccine, researchers said on Wednesday.
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The number of children dying worldwide has dropped below 10 million a year for the first time, UNICEF said Thursday
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After 50 years of failure, a vaccine against malaria could be in sight, raising hopes of slashing the death toll from a disease that kills more than a million people, mostly babies and pregnant women, every year.
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LONDON, Nov 17 (IPS) - Malaria is billed as top priority in a new health   initiative being launched in Africa this week.
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WASHINGTON -- Many African countries have sharply reduced the deaths of young children in recent years, saving hundreds of thousands of lives, according to new data from 46 nations that contradict the perception that the world's poorest continent was making little gain against killer diseases.