Child mortality 'at record low'
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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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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.
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There were 175 sudden infant deaths in England and Wales last year, down from 192 in 2002.
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Numbers don't lie &#151; or do they? When it comes to public health, figures are seldom straightforward. Last week, UNICEF announced what it described as a "major public health success": child deaths dropped to a record low of 9.7 million worldwide in 2005.
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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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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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In just over a decade Indonesia has managed to cut by half its mortality rate for children aged under five but the country still has work to do to tackle regional trouble spots, the United Nations said.
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More than 40,000 Northern Ireland children are living in severe poverty, according to a new report.
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GENEVA  - Children must be at the forefront of efforts to prevent heart disease, health agencies said as they accused governments of neglecting the 17 million deaths from cardiovascular illness a year.
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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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LONDON - All children with HIV in developing countries should take a low-cost antibiotic because it could nearly halve the death rate, researchers say.
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Economic growth does not always lead to better health or lower child mortality, new research suggests.
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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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Gains among blacks and Puerto Ricans drove infant mortality rates to a record low in New York City last year, city officials reported Thursday.
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LAGOS  - More than 300,000 children in Nigeria could die between now and 2014 if the level of vitamin A in their food is not increased, according to a report by the United Nations (news - web sites) Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF (news - web sites
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About 50 percent of the children in Bangladesh are malnourished while 36 percent of the babies are born underweight. The country has around six million working children and about 2.5 lakh children die every
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About 400,000 toddlers die every year in China mainly because of a lack of medical care, a member of a government advisory group said on Wednesday, urging greater investment in the health system.