Child mortality rate drops in Latin America: UNICEF
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Latin America has seen a decline in child mortality rate, but the situation in Iraq, countries of the former Soviet Union and those in sub-Saharan Africa has worsened over the
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Women in the developing world are waiting to have a family and giving birth to fewer children, a UN report says.
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ROME, Jun 21 (IPS) - The main reason that Latin America is not making  faster progress towards the Millennium Development Goals adopted  by the international community in 2000 lies in the various forms  of inequality that prevail in the region, former Dutch minister  of development cooperation Eveline Herfkens told IPS Thursday.
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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 said, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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Worldwide deaths from measles have fallen by two-thirds since 2000, the result of stepped-up immunization efforts and the distribution of vitamin A capsules in developing countries, a partnership of five health organizations said yesterday.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador  - Slow growth in Latin  American economies will hamper efforts to cut poverty in the  region in half by 2015, the Inter-American Development Bank  president said on Wednesday.
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For the first time since record keeping began in 1960, the number of deaths of young children around the world has fallen below 10 million a year, Unicef reported.
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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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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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About 9.7 million children die each year before their fifth birthday, mostly from diseases that could be prevented with simple, affordable measures, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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The U.S. poverty rate fell for the first time this decade but more people are living without health insurance and the bulk of the nation's poor are children, government data released on Tuesday showed.
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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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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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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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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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The World Health Organization (WHO)said Wednesday that it and its partners are acting to reduce the maternal death toll of half a million women each year.
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A newborn in Sierra Leone has the lowest chance in the world of surviving until age 5, and the prospects are almost as bad for children in Angola and Afghanistan, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.