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 Re: International Child Day - 20 November (Re: Dr. Faisal Mohamed)
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Ten Basic Facts About The World's Children
UNICEF
40,000 children under the age of five die each day from malnutrition and vaccine preventable disease.
Universal access to just four low-cost health care measures could save the lives of half of the 15-18 million children who die each year from preventable causes. Nearly 8,000 children are dying each day because they have not been immunized; nearly 7000 are dying from dehydration caused by diarrhoea, and approximately 6000 are dying every day from pneumonia, Making available today's low cost solutions to all of there child health problems would cost approximately $2.5 billion a year. This is as much as the 10% of the EEC's annual subsidy to farmers, as much as the Soviet Union spends on vodka in a month or U.S. companies spend on cigarette advertising yearly. $2.5 billion is as much as 2% of the developing world's military spending and what the world spends on the military in one day.
Nearly 100 million children of primary school age are not taking part in any education programs.
Only half the children in the developing world have access to clean drinking water, and fewer have access to sanitary waste facilities.
Half a million mothers die annually as a result of pregnancy or childbirth.
Breast feeding is on the decline in many developing countries although bottle-fed infants contract far more illnesses and are as much as 25 times more likely to die in childhood than infants who are exclusively breast fed.
Each year at least 250,000 young children lose their sight for the lack of a small amount of vitamin A in their diet. Two 2 cent doses of vitamin A could prevent this.
Over 100 million children throughout the world are forced to work under hazardous and often fatal conditions; many are employed under slave - like conditions for no pay.
More than one billion people - the majority of them children - either have no home or live in inadequate housing.
There are more than 10 million child refugees around the world, comprising 60% to 70% of the refugee population. Malnutrition, chronic infectious disease, physical and mental retardation are widespread in refugee camps. Many children, often separated from their parents, have spent their whole lives in closed refugee comps, encircled by gun towers and barbed wire.
Statistics from UNICEF 's State of the World's Children 1989 & 1990 report PLAN International
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 International Child Day - 20 November | Dr. Faisal Mohamed | 11-19-07, 11:11 PM |
| Re: International Child Day - 20 November | اسعد الريفى | 11-20-07, 06:20 AM |
| Re: International Child Day - 20 November | اسعد الريفى | 11-20-07, 06:28 AM |
| Re: International Child Day - 20 November | خالدة البدوي | 11-20-07, 06:28 AM |
| Re: International Child Day - 20 November | اسعد الريفى | 11-20-07, 06:36 AM |
| Re: International Child Day - 20 November | Dr. Faisal Mohamed | 11-20-07, 06:52 AM |
| Re: International Child Day - 20 November | الطيب شيقوق | 11-20-07, 07:05 AM |
| Re: International Child Day - 20 November | Dr. Faisal Mohamed | 11-20-07, 07:03 AM |
| Re: International Child Day - 20 November | Dr. Faisal Mohamed | 11-20-07, 07:43 AM |
| Re: International Child Day - 20 November | الطيب شيقوق | 11-20-07, 07:46 AM |
| Re: International Child Day - 20 November | اسعد الريفى | 11-20-07, 08:16 AM |
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