Indonesia halves infant mortality rate: UN
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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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The death toll in Indonesia's Aceh province from a quake and tsunami that struck on Sunday might reach between 50,000 and 80,000, a UN official said.
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Millions of mothers, newborn babies and children die each year in Africa from preventable diseases despite promises of better healthcare by governments and donor countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
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The number of deaths worldwide among children under 5 dropped to a record low of 9.7 million in 2006, reflecting progress in areas such as malaria prevention, childhood immunizations and breastfeeding rates, global health officials said yesterday.
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The human death toll from bird flu in Indonesia has risen to 100 - almost half of the total worldwide fatalities.
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India's health minister lamented on Thursday the country's high infant mortality rate at a time of economic prosperity, pledging to halve the number of baby deaths by 2010.
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Secretary General Kofi Annan cut short his vacation and returned to New York on Wednesday to oversee the United Nations&#39; extensive relief effort in Southeast Asia as the region&#39;s death toll topped 76,000.
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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesian Vice-  President Jusuf Kalla said on Monday the death toll from a  tsunami that swept across the Indian ocean region could hit  10,000 in one area of his country alone.
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Indonesia's health ministry puts the number of people killed by the tsunami at more than 166,000.
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ONE in 12 children worldwide died before their fifth birthday, with half of all such deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations reported yesterday in its annual survey of infant mortality.
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Disease could double the death toll from the tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean region at the weekend, a top World Health Organisation (WHO) official said yesterday.
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Secretary General Kofi Annan cut short his vacation and returned to New York on Wednesday to oversee the United Nations' extensive relief effort in Southeast Asia as the region's death toll topped 76,000.
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More than one in five children who die within four weeks of birth is an Indian despite improvements in child mortality rates worldwide, the United Nations Children's Fund said.
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Aid agencies have prevented disease spreading through Indonesia's tsunami-stricken Aceh, but the threat remained strong, the United Nations said Friday as doctors reported children dying from pneumonia.
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The death toll in Indonesia's devastated Aceh province from a quake and tsunami is likely to be above 100,000, the health minister said on Friday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The threat of disease  decimating survivors of Asia's tsunami has receded but aid  agencies are remaining on their guard, the U.N. said on Friday  as doctors reported children dying from pneumonia.