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April 19, 2005
Real lives
While we worry about what computer game addiction and childhood obesity are doing to Australian kids, many, many children around the world are struggling simply to stay alive. The three big threats to millions of children are poverty, armed conflict and HIV/AIDS. Same as last year, and then there was the tsunami. The State of the World's Children 2005 (http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_24432.html) has the lowdown on the problems and what is being done to deal with them. Answer: not enough. Around 10. 6 million kids died last year before reaching their fifth birthday. The report has a statistical tool, photographs and real life stories, not all of them grim. Posted by belinda at April 19, 2005 04:00 PMEmail this