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Women living with HIV can transmit the virus to their babies during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding.
Innovative responses to HIV and Aids allow countries to make rapid, cost-effective gains against the epidemic.
Comment by Craig McClure, the chief of HIV and Aids at Unicef.
Reports states that great progress has been made to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Breast milk gives infants all the nutrients they need for strong development.
There is hope that the next generation of children in Malawi may be born HIV free.
A great challenge in finding ways to engage adolescents and young people on how to protect themselves from HIV and Aids.
Young people living with HIV have unique needs that paediatric and adult programmes are not designed to meet.
The humanitarian emergency in the Central African Republic worsens daily as security in much of the country remains elusive.
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/ 11 February 2012
Sahel states are bracing for a long hungry season, many weakened by the return of people from Libya who are creating fresh strife.
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/ 18 November 2011
Childcarers and educators say the same thing: early neglect of children is catastophic for later learning.
The plight of millions of people left hungry by a harsh drought across the Horn of Africa is set to worsen, a top UN official has warned.
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/ 15 February 2011
Five-year-old Fatime Owye’s emaciated body evokes memories of famines such as those in 1980s Ethiopia.
Lax immunisation has resulted in outbreaks in formerly virus-free zones on the continent.
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/ 1 December 2010
Complacency among young people is causing a new surge of the Aids epidemic in the United States and European nations a top United Nations expert said.
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/ 1 December 2010
A generation of babies could be born free of Aids if the international community stepped up efforts to provide universal access to HIV prevention.
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/ 11 November 2010
Unicef gets ready to launch a mass immunisation campaign in the Republic of Congo, after an outbreak of polio claimed 97 lives in under a week.
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/ 10 November 2010
It’s no great medical breakthrough, just a simple colour-coded box packed with HIV drugs and pictures.
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/ 1 September 2009
Ugandan rebels have displaced as many as 320,000 people in northern Democratic Republic of Congo, Unicef chief says.
Zimbabwe’s crumbling infrastructure makes another cholera outbreak ”almost inevitable”, the United Nations Children’s Fund warned on Wednesday.
Sri Lanka’s navy rescued more than 640 people who fled the war zone in a clutch of small boats as Tiger rebels fired, the military said on Wednesday.
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/ 14 January 2009
SMS technology is now being used by health workers in Africa to monitor nutrition levels in their communities.
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/ 23 December 2008
There are about 6 000 child soldiers in Sudan’s war-torn region of Darfur where about two million children have been affected by conflict.
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/ 30 October 2008
The Sonke PhotoVoice Project allows children to talk about their wants and needs. Kristin Palitza reports.
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/ 9 September 2008
The M2 Coffee Shop’s Grade 10 Autumn Academy this year unpacked the global skills shortage by highlighting some frightening worldwide statistics.
You’ve got the salary, the job title, and the shiny business cards to prove your work status. So why does something feel not quite right?