The State of the World's Children
UNICEF The State of the World's Children 2002 is about the leadership that was needed to turn commitments made at the 1990 World Summit for Children into actions that improved the lives of children...
View ArticleBig rise in child mortality rate in SA
Bruce Venter In South Africa, there has been a rapid increase in child mortality - more than 106 000 children under the age of five die each year. A study released in 2003 by the Burden of Disease...
View ArticleWomen, Water and Hygiene Are Key to Change in Africa
UNICEF Press Centre Women, water and basic hygiene are the key to creating lasting change in Africa, but national water and sanitation plans are still leaving women out, leaders in development said...
View ArticleLiberia: Political will and resources needed to cut child mortality
Oystein Meland, Inter Press Service News Agency Of the ten countries in the world that have the worst rates of child mortality, six* are in West Africa - a region that has seen more than its share of...
View ArticlePoverty pushes up SA's child mortality
Ashley Keyser, IOL Poverty is the underlying cause of child deaths in South Africa, according to a recent study released by the Medical Research Council. But other sub-Saharan African countries, with...
View ArticleSA in danger of not reducing child mortality
Yugendree Naidoo, IOL Health experts have warned that South Africa's chances of meeting United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to child mortality are becoming increasingly slim....
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