HEALTH:   'Children Are the Hope of the World' Says Che's Daughter
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MILAN, Dec 14 (IPS) - Aleida Guevara March has the eyes of her famous  father, the revolutionary icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara. She  speaks energetically, as if she is attempting to convince a full  auditorium of her ideas. But she also smiles tenderly as she  remembers her father.
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Pneumococcal diseases kill 18,000 children each year in Latin America because of a lack of systematic vaccines, said a study published at a conference here of experts on the diseases.
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MIANCHI, China -- Twice a week, just after school lets out in this small county in Henan province, a 13-year-old girl with a short bob and wide smile holds her parents' hands and walks two blocks down the street into the harsh fluorescent light of an emergency medical station.
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Pleading with doctors at a Mexican  hospital to treat his 26-year-old daughter as she bled from her  nose, mouth and vagina, Jesus Domingo Trasvina was told to stop  exaggerating, that she had a sinus infection.
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More than 2 million children under the age of 15 are living with HIV, almost all in sub-Saharan Africa where there is no access to treatment and death almost certain, seven leading child advocacy organizations said.
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A low-cost antibiotic should be given to all children with HIV (news - web sites) in developing countries to prevent infections such as pneumonia and reduce deaths, scientists said on Friday.
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Ouarda Touirat, her day-old baby daughter nestling in her arms, said on Friday she had never lost hope that she could conceive after cancer treatment left her infertile.
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LONDON, Dec 10 (IPS) - Poverty, conflict and HIV/AIDS are the biggest  threats to children's lives in developing countries, says a  new Unicef report.
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More than half the world&#39;s children are denied their childhood as a result of HIV/AIDS, poverty and war according to the State of the World Children&#39;s report 2005 launched in Suva today.
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An 8-year-old boy who collapsed after a speech by Chilean President Michelle Bachelet could not have picked a better leader to have nearby: a former paediatrician and mother of three.
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Havana (VNA) - Cuban President Fidel Castro on Tuesday again affirmed that socialism is the only hope for peace and the existence of humankind.
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The vice president's daughter asserted that same-sex couples are equally capable of raising children as heterosexual couples.
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President Hugo Chavez calls it one of his greatest achievements: a public health system with new clinics, refurbished hospitals and thousands of Cuban doctors providing free checkups for the poor.
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Even young children can paint a picture of their health and well-being, though it doesn't always match parents' perceptions, research shows.
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PORTLAND - When Tammi Keller had her daughter, she chose to breast-feed her because that was the healthiest thing she thought she could do for her baby.
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The father of a gravely ill premature baby, whose doctors wish to end her life, told a British court that his daughter was a &quot;fighter&quot; and that future scientific developments could enrich her life.
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MONDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Millions of childrens lives could be saved by a coordinated global effort to improve nutrition and provide clean water, better sanitation and cleaner household fuels in underdeveloped countries, a new study finds.