UNICEF News, Apr 26, 2012

UNICEF marks World Malaria Day UNICEF (press release) NEW YORK, 25 April 2012 – Despite great progress in the fight against malaria, the disease remains the third largest killer of children globally,UNICEF said today on World Malaria Day. Malaria, which takes the lives of nearly 700000 people every year, ... See all stories on this topic »

World failing to stem deaths of teenagers, says medical journal Calgary Herald Although the health of the world's infants and children has improved significantly in the past 50 years, that same success has not been achieved for adolescents and young adults, say reports out today. According to aUNICEF report, ... See all stories on this topic »

On World Malaria Day, UNICEF distributes mosquito nets in DR Congo UNICEF (press release) The vast operation is possible thanks to a UNICEF partnership with the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), together with funding from the World Bank and PMI-USAID. The World Food Programme (WFP), the NGO ALBA and other partners ... See all stories on this topic » UNICEF (press release)

UNICEF Executive Director announces new global immunization strategy UNICEF (press release) The first-ever World Immunization Week takes place from 21-28 April 2012. UNICEF offices around the world are engaging in immunization campaigns and raising awareness about the importance of vaccines to child survival. UNICEF is the world'slargest ... See all stories on this topic » UNICEF (press release)

Global Fund, USAID, WHO, UNICEF Commended For Supporting Malaria Control In Ghana Peace FM Online She noted that logistical support and financial commitment of the Global Fund, World Health Organisation, UNICEF and the United States Agency for International Development in the fight against the disease could not be over-emphasised. See all stories on this topic » Peace FM Online

Mortality rates still too high for world's teens WXII The Triad The paper, titled "Health of the world's adolescents: a synthesis of internationally comparable data," is just one of several published in this edition of the journal. Those papers are paired with a report card on adolescent health released by UNICEF. See all stories on this topic » WXII The Triad

1/5th of women aged 20-24 yrs become mothers before adulthood Business Standard PTI / New Delhi April 26, 2012 18:25 IST The report titled "The State of theWorld Children 2012" by UNICEF based on a survey conducted in the period 2000-2010, says as many as 30 per cent female adolescents aged 15-19 years were married compared to ... See all stories on this topic »

Gov't, UNICEF sign $1.2-b action plan to help children Jamaica Observer It was designed by UNICEF to support the achievement of the goals of the Medium Term Socio-economic Framework Vision 2030, the Millennium Development Goals, the Millennium Declaration and outcomes of a World Fit for Children and to meet the ... See all stories on this topic »

helping Chernobyl's children CNN The radiation effects of the April 26, 1986, reactor explosion were about 400 times more potent than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II, and nearly 14 times greater than the disaster last year at the Fukushima plant in Japan. See all stories on this topic »

Charles Taylor verdict serves as warning to war-time leaders, says UNICEF UNICEF (press release) UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and ... See all stories on this topic »

US teens lead western world in alcohol, drug abuse, study finds MLive.com ... the study found US rates of teen sex were about average for the developed world, with about a quarter saying they had sex before age 15. The findings are included in a Lancet report on adolescent health analyzing UNICEF data. See all stories on this topic » MLive.com

Country of the fair go drags its heels Sydney Morning Herald Australia is giving just 35 cents in every $100 we earn as a nation, yet 75 per cent of the world's poorest people live in our Asia-Pacific neighbourhood. Photo: Jason Childs We're the lucky country - it's about time we let that luck rub off on others. See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

Nearly 50 per cent of India's adolescent girls underweight (UNICEFreport card ... India.Com Health For adolescents around the world, report cards present a measure of their academic progress – and can point the way towards their futures. But how does the global community measure up in our efforts to give those young people the futures they deserve ... See all stories on this topic » India.Com Health

Happy One-Year Wedding Anniversary, Will and Kate! E! Online Kate's decision to decline tasting peanut paste during a goodwillUNICEF mission with Wills in Copenhagen is the legume refusal heard 'round the world, with overly concerned royal watchers speculating that Kate must therefore be pregnant. See all stories on this topic » E! Online

Undernourished and anaemic – the plight of India's teen girls Reuters India (blog) Soon to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2050, India already has the highest number of adolescents in theworld at 243 million, says the report by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). Yet nearly half of Indian girls aged 15 to 19 are ... See all stories on this topic » Reuters India (blog)

Underage sex and drinking a problem among British teens TODAYonline LONDON - Britain has the third highest proportion of sexually active teenagers in the world as well as some of the worst levels of harmful underage drinking, according to a series of studies published in the Lancet medical journal on Tuesday. See all stories on this topic »

ING publishes 2011 Sustainability Report Reuters ... the 2011 DJSI World Index Sustainability function now directly reports to ING's CEO ING operated 100% climate neutral ING IM introduced an new fund, the 'ING Sustainable Credit Fund' Partnership with UNICEF prolonged for three years 118101 children ... See all stories on this topic »

Why I Am Thinking About the Nobel Peace Prize on World Malaria Day Huffington Post (blog) A Nobel Prize for UNITAID would put momentum behind the idea that at least a portion of funds levied by an FTT should support the world's most vulnerable people. The UN, the IAEA, the UN Refugee Agency, UNICEF, UN Peacekeeping, have all won Nobel Peace ... See all stories on this topic »

UNICEF: 50 per cent of female in developing countries accept wife-beating The Sun Daily The report entitled "Progress for Children: A Report Card on Adolescents" is based on data collected from 74 countries and covers 69 per cent of the female population in the 15–49 age group in the developing world, excluding China. See all stories on this topic »

Angelique Kidjo Supports World Immunization Week Look To The Stars By Delinda Lombardo on April 26, 2012 UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo is supporting the first-ever WorldImmunization Week (April 21-28), an international effort to highlight the importance of immunization. See all stories on this topic »

APNewsBreak: UN finds cluster bombs in Sri Lanka Atlanta Journal Constitution FILE - In this May 23, 2009 file photo, an abandoned UN WorldFood Program vehicle sits amidst the devastation, in this aerial photo showing part of the former conflict zone on the north east coast of Sri Lanka. On Thursday, April 26, 2012, ... See all stories on this topic » Atlanta Journal Constitution

Slow but steady results in Angola's fight against malaria UNICEF (press release) By Yolanda Nunes Correia LUANDA, Angola, 25 April 2012 – Today, 25 April, is World Malaria Day, an event that calls attention to the critical need bring malaria under control. Despite progress made in Angola's fight against malaria, the disease remains ... See all stories on this topic » UNICEF (press release)

UNICEF report shows teens in the Americas face their share of challenges Latina Lista: The Smart News Source LatinaLista — It's not surprising that the global profile of today's 1.2 billion adolescents (10-19-years-old) is an uneven one as outlined in the latest report issued by UNICEF titled “Progress for Children: A report card on adolescents. See all stories on this topic »

Why Isn't the Teen Mortality Rate Dropping? Jezebel The UNICEF report found that the 1.2 billion adolescents on the planet make up nearly one-fifth of the world's population. That's a lot of teens running around, and it would behoove us all to keep them out of trouble. What's even scarier is that the ... See all stories on this topic »

Global Vaccination Campaign Targets Measles, Rubella AllAfrica.com "Recent measles outbreaks have affected children in the world unevenly, with the poorest and youngest children the most at risk of death of disability," said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake. "This new strategic plan stresses that measles and ... See all stories on this topic »

Celebrating vaccines: World Immunization Week 2012 FierceVaccines The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared April 21-28 to be WorldImmunization Week, as a celebration and an opportunity to promote immunization, advance universal access to vaccination services, and enable cooperation on cross-border ... See all stories on this topic »

Cathartic camera Hindu Business Line These films when done are put out for everyone to see on YouTube, on TV programmes, in conferences and seminars around the world and they are screened at Unicef events that focus on the young children and the issues concerning them in different parts ... See all stories on this topic » Hindu Business Line

UNICEF-Sponsored Motorcycle Adventure Starts ERR News Two Estonians, Sven Mansberg ja Juhan Peedimaa, are undertaking the three-stage, year-long tour under the auspices of the Estonian UNICEF, the United Nations Children´s Fund. The first part of the tour will be east by southeast. See all stories on this topic »

Liberians decry 'mockery of justice' in Charles Taylor verdict Globe and Mail As the world applauded the guilty verdict against former Liberian president Charles Taylor today, the angry backlash in his homeland was a reminder of the risks of prosecuting a politician who remains popular at home. At a special international court ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

Country Rolls Out Vaccines Against Top Two Killers of Children AllAfrica.com Accra — Ghana has become the first African country to introduce pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines at the same time, simultaneously tackling the leading causes of the world's two biggest childhood killers - pneumonia and diarrhoea. See all stories on this topic »

Seminar: 'Malnutrition in parts of Pakistan as high as in Africa' The Express Tribune ... with mothers who do not meet their nutritional needs during pre nancy," UNICEF representative Silvia. Malnutrition in some parts of Pakistan is as high as in Africa, says Jean-Luc Siblot,World Food Programme's country representative for Pakistan. See all stories on this topic » The Express Tribune

Under-15 sex: Indian girls beat boys IBNLive.com This trend holds for most of the developing world and in countries in the Caribbean and Latin America, 17 per cent of girls had sex before they turned 15 years old. These are the results of a Unicef study on adolescents carried out in 2010, ... See all stories on this topic » IBNLive.com

UK's Royal Society Finds No 'Silver Bullet' for Population Issues Science AAAS In order to meet previously agreed goals for universal education, policy makers in countries with low school attendance need to work with international funders and organisations, such as UNESCO, UNFPA,UNICEF, IMF, World Bank and Education for All. See all stories on this topic »

On World Malaria Day, UNICEF distributes mosquito nets in DR Congo Tolerance All information reproduced on the Web pages of www.tolerance.ca (including articles, images, photographs, and logos) is protected by intellectual property rights owned by Tolerance.ca® Inc. or, in certain cases, by its author. See all stories on this topic »

Country Fights Malaria With Mass Distribution of Treated Mosquito Nets AllAfrica.com "This World Malaria Day, the message from the global Roll Back Malaria Partnership is 'Sustain Gains, Save Lives: Invest in Malaria,'" said Ritva Reinikka, director of Human Development, in the World Bank's Africa Region, "This is highly relevant in ... See all stories on this topic »

Angelique Kidjo Supports World Immunization Week UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo is supporting the first-ever World Immunization Week (April 21-28), an international effort to highlight the importance of immunization. Look To The Stars News: Latest

BBC News - Unicef chief: Sahel needs help Unicef director Anthony Lake says the Sahel region has never been in more danger of mass starvation as his organisation tries to fight "donor fatigue" after years ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17765214

NEWS - WORLD - UNICEF Ambassador Selena Gomez calls for ... Watch more Canal Internacional: www.ci-webtv.comUNICEF Ambassador Selena ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK1y9gNXLvM

World Malaria Day - UNICEF Australia World Malaria Day. 23/04/12 Print this article | Email this article to a friend. By Jade Bae, UNICEF Australia Communications Intern We all love the summertime. www.unicef.org.au/Discover/.../World-Malaria-Day.aspx

Lucy Liu Discusses 'Southland' Emmy Buzz, UNICEF ... - ABC News "Kill Bill," "Charlie's Angels" actress went to Haiti as aUNICEF ambassador. ... Lucy Liu ... abcnews.go.com/.../lucy-liu-discusses-southland-emmy-buzz-u...

UNICEF CEE/CIS - Media centre - Turkmenistan marks World ... Press releases and news notes - 2012 ... UNICEF in the news ... Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, 23 April 2012 – Turkmenistan has joined the world in marking the ... www.unicef.org/ceecis/media_19782.html

Latest News - Unicef Ireland. | UNICEF Ireland The first-ever World Immunisation Week takes place from 21-28 April 2012.UNICEF offices around the world are engaging in immunisation campaigns and ... www.unicef.ie/.../UNICEF-Executive-Director-announces-new...

Unicef report reveals Indian men, women think wife beating justified ... A report by Unicef says that 57 percent of young Indian men in the 15-19 age bracket think that wife beating is justified, according to a report in The Times of ... moroccoworldnews.com/.../unicef-report-reveals-indian-men-...

Child Mortality Rates Under 5years Reduce by 65%-UNICEF ... News In Uganda, Uganda News. ... In February 2012, UNICEF released a report titled 'The State of the World's Children 2012' in which it revealed that most of ... www.ugandapicks.com/.../child-mortality-rates-under-5years-r...

UNICEF Report: Millions of adolescents falling behind, especially in ... Progress for Children, a new UNICEF report on adolescents highlights the alarming consequences of the benefits of ... not being equally shared among the 1.2 billion adolescents now living in all the regions of the world. ... Newsfrom the Field ... www.unicefusa.org/news/.../unicef-report-adolescents.html

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