ACR Weekly Newsletter Vol.4, No. 38 (21 September 2005)
ASIA: Half of the Region's Children Live in Poverty [publication] Despite Asia's booming economy 600 million children -almost half the region's 1.25 billion under-18s - are severely deprived of basicneeds such as food, healthcare and shelter (compared with 265 milli...
IRAQ: Child Mortality Rates Finally Dropping [news] While the health situation for Iraqi children remainsperilous, reports from the Ministry of Health and Environment indicate that the lastyear has witnessed an important drop in rates of disease among ...
HIV/AIDS: Early Childhood and HIV/AIDS Series [publications] The Bernard Van Leer Foundation has recently published a series of Working Papers on"Early Childhood and HIV/AIDS", a sub-series of their "Working Papers in EarlyChildhood Development" series. The pur...