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  Feeding the world’s children

  The Lancet, 2002

  Almost one third of children in less-developed countries have malnutrition. A report published by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reveals striking new differences in prevalence rates of malnutrition, with almost half of all children in south Asia being malnourished compared with less than one third in sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Children, HIV/AIDS and communication in South Africa: a literature review

  Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2002

  This commissioned report aimed to to provide insight into issues related to communication of HIV/AIDS to children in the 3-12 year age group, with an emphasis on South Africa.
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  Adolescent sexuality, gender and the HIV epidemic

  HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1999

  Young people have been found to be especially vulnerable to HIV infection through lack of knowledge, access to treatment and prevention methods like condoms.Stereotypical gender roles place young women, and to a lesser extent young men, at heightened risk of HIV infection. Young women in many parts of the developing world have little control over how, when and where sex takes place.
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  Child prostitution: global health burden, research needs, and interventions

  The Lancet, 2002

  Inadequate data exists on the health problems faced by prostituted children, who are at high risk of infectious disease, pregnancy, mental illness, substance abuse, and violence.
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  AIDS, public policy and child well-being

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2001

  This paper presents the findings of a global study carried out in 2000 on the specific impact of HIV/AIDS on children.
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  Child mortality in Maharashtra, India

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2002

  This article examines official statistics on child mortality rates in Maharashtra, and compares them against an initial set of findings on child and infant mortality that also measured extent and causes of under-reporting of child deaths.
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  Water for life: the impact of the privatization of water services on child mortality

  Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University, 2002

  This paper examines the impact of water privatisation on child mortality rates in Argentina.Between 1991 and 1999, about 30 percent of water companies covering approximately 60 percent of the population were privatised.
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  Precious resources: adolescents in the reconstruction of Sierra Leone

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2002

  This paper reports the findings of over 600 interviews with adolescents and youth in Sierra Leone in April and May 2002. Many of the interviews were conducted by the young people themselves. The perception of Sierra Leone's youth is that to achieve peace, degradation and instability must be eliminated from their communities and their everyday lives.
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  Unseen millions: the catastrophe of internal displacement in Colombia. Children and adolescents at risk

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2002

  This paper reports the findings of the delegation of the Women's Commission to Columbia to investigate the conditions in which internally displaced children and adolescents are living.About half of the displaced population in Colombia are children and adolescents and suffer and witness violence, sexual exploitation and rape.
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  Young people and HIV/AIDS: responding to the new Asian crisis

  Save the Children Fund, 2001

  This report provides examples of a number of Save the Children projects in Asian countries where the focus has been on children affected by HIV/AIDS and/or prevention efforts focused on children and young people.The authors outline the organisation's policy and approach with regard to tackling issues such as stigma, the child sex trade and education.

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