India accounts for highest newborn deaths: UNICEF
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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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The Red Cross says the death toll from one of the worst tsunamis in history could top 100,000, as more bodies are found from India to Indonesia.
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Nearly 40 percent of the 128 million babies born worldwide every year are not officially registered, and two thirds of deaths also go undocumented, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
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Nearly 400 people are known to have died from encephalitis this year in Uttar Pradesh and neighbouring areas, Indian officials say.
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Global efforts to promote childhood immunization, breast-feeding and anti-malaria measures have helped cut by nearly a quarter the death rate of children under age 5 since 1990, UNICEF said on Wednesday.
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Seven thousand fewer girls are born  in India each day than the global average would suggest,  largely because female fetuses are aborted after sex  determination tests, the United Nations Children's Fund  (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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Nearly half of India's children are malnourished, putting the country in the same league as some of the world's poorest countries &#151; even though fewer infants are dying and more pregnant Indian women are seeing doctors, according to government data released Friday.
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Giving birth in poor countries proves fatal for more than half a million women every year, or one every minute, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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Despite the near universal embrace of standards for protecting childhood, a new UNICEF report shows that more than half the world&#39;s children are suffering extreme deprivations from poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, conditions that are effectively denying
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Political leaders the world over are  failing the most vulnerable of their people -- children, the  U.N. child rights organization UNICEF said on Thursday.
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CHANNAI, India  - In a study conducted in India, vitamin A supplements given in the early newborn period reduced the risk of infant deaths from diarrhea, fever and respiratory infections, but did not reduce the occurrence of these problems.
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The risk of death to newborns delivered by voluntary Caesarean section is much higher than previously believed, a new study indicates.
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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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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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About 160,000 infants die each year in the Asia-Pacific region due to a decline in breastfeeding, a UNICEF expert told a regional conference on Wednesday.
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As many as five million deaths are caused by air pollution every year in India, the country's junior Environment and Forest Minister Namo Narayan Meena said.
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India planned to verify United Nation&#039;s estimates it had overtaken South Africa as the country with the highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world, a government official said on Friday.