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15 08, 2013

10 interventions equals a million children saved

2017-04-26T12:35:08+00:00

?Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are among the 34 countries around the globe most affected by childhood malnutrition. If just 10 key nutrition interventions are scaled up to 90 per cent coverage in these countries, nearly 15 per cent of all deaths in children under five can be prevented, and at least a fifth [...]

15 08, 2011

Floods impact will be felt for years, says UNICEF report

2017-04-26T12:35:24+00:00

A year after devastating monsoon floods hit Pakistan, many of the more than 18 million affected people — almost half of them children — are struggling to rebuild their shattered lives against a background of dwindling humanitarian funding and fear of new floods. The floods, which at their worst covered up to one-fifth of the [...]