Approximately 50 per cent of Indonesia's children aged under five suffer from malnutrition, of which 25 per cent are babies under two, said a United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) official. The
According to United Nations World Food Program (UNWFP) official, David Morton, the continuing famine in North Korea is comparable to the Ethiopian famine in the mid-1980s.
Doctors know that children whose mothers smoke have a higher risk of smoking during their adolescence, but they are yet to find out why. However, a recent study says it probably involves the learning
According to the World Health Organisation, about 31 million people in the world are living with 11IV or AIDS. Significantly, this includes-about one million children. In 1997, around 2.3 million
Garbage dumps are the only source of livelihood for hundreds of poor children living in Phnom Penh. Scores of children can be seen atop heaps of foul-smelling wastes, competing with the municipal