Child Mortality Rising Fast in Parts of Asia-U.N.
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Child mortality rates are spiraling in parts of Asia because of financially crippled public health care systems, a U.N. report said on Friday.
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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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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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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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While reproductive planning and women&#39;s equality have improved substantially over the past decade, says a United Nations report, world population will increase from 6.4 billion today to 8.9 billion by 2050, with the 50 poorest countries tripling in
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The rising cost of privatised healthcare in Asia is behind a spike in child deaths in Cambodia and caused more than half the region to fall behind global goals to lower child mortality, a United Nations report warned.
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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 despite a big international aid  effort, the World Health Organization said Monday.
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Soaring childhood obesity rates will increase diabetes rates across the globe, international agencies warn.
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A new study released by the United Nations Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF) indicates the West African nation of Sierra Leone has the world&#39;s highest rate of child mortality.
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MONDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Global experts on child health are meeting in New York City on Monday to discuss an ongoing tragedy: the fact that 10.5 million children under the age of five die each year.
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More infants die in sub-Saharan Africa now than a decade ago, largely because HIV/Aids has reversed advances in public health, the UN children&#39;s agency Unicef reports today.
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Infectious diseases are emerging more  quickly and spreading faster around the globe than ever and  becoming increasingly difficult to treat, the World Health  Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
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More must be done more quickly to make the world fit for children by 2015, the UN children's fund Unicef says.
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The UN says fewer children under five are dying than ever before, partly due to increased immunisation.
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HIV infections are on the rise in all regions and in China the deadly virus is gradually spreading from high-risk groups to the general population, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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More than 10 million children under 5   years old die each year but two-thirds of those deaths could be   prevented with effective, cheap treatments that are already   available, health experts said on Monday.
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A new U.N. report showed a sharp increase in child malnutrition rates compared with last year, despite the efforts of more than 13,000 relief workers.