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PubMed1982

General condition of children in the Indo-Chinese Peninsula and type of UNICEF programmes.

The total population in the three countries of the Indo-China Peninsula is 62.5 million (1980 estimate) out of which children under the age of 15 comprises 43.9%. Over 80% of the total population belong to rural areas. Available statistics indicate that problems such as high infant and child mortality, high incidence of communicable diseases, malnutrition, low enrollment rate for education, poor quality of education, inadequacy of child care services and poor environmental health conditions, are prevalent in these countries. UNICEF's programmes are geared towards the reduction of these problems and thus cover the following fields: (a) child health; (b) child nutrition, (c) water supply and sanitation, (d) formal and non-formal education, (e) social welfare services for children. The extent to which UNICEF could provide in terms of technical, material and financial assistance is rather small compared to the size of the problem and thus significant efforts will have to be made by the Governments as well as by the U.N. community and voluntary agencies to overcome these problems.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1992

Nutrition mission to Iraq for UNICEF.

At the request of UNICEF, the authors conducted a rapid nutritional assessment of children from birth to five years of age in southern Iraq during the second half of June 1991. With support from local UNICEF staff, the nutrition team examined 680 children, measuring weight, height, and mid-upper arm circumference and observing clinical signs of anemia, vitamin A deficiency, and dehydration. These measurements and observations were performed in 14 rural, urban, and periurban settings in Basrah and Amarah governorates. Evidence of both acute and chronic malnutrition was found in large numbers of the children examined. However, the acute nutritional signs of impending famine were not evident at the time of the survey. This is true notwithstanding epidemic levels of infectious disease, market prices for basic food items three to 20 times prewar levels, and a reported crisis in mothers' ability to breastfeed. Other signs of impending famine (distress sales of family assets, disintegration of social structures, etc.) may have existed, but were not evident to the team.

Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena↗
PubMed1993

UNICEF policy and perspectives: child survival, population growth, environment and development.

UNLABELLED: Rapid population growth is clearly a major problem in the world today. But to argue, as some do, that attempts to reduce child mortality by such means as vaccination should be abandoned, as a means of reducing population growth, is a fallacy for the following reasons. (i) Reducing child mortality has only a small effect on the population growth rate. (ii) Increasing child survival leads to a reduction in the numbers of children conceived. (iii) POPULATION: land ratios are not the main source of environmental pressure. (iv) It is the affluence of developed countries which contributes mainly to the pressure on available resources. The policy of UNICEF is thus to improve maternal and child health, to support and extend family planning programmes, and to seek to reduce the prevalence of very early marriage and teenage pregnancy.

Child↗
PubMed1988

The impact of a UNICEF-assisted rural water project on the prevalence of guinea worm disease in Asa, Kwara State, Nigeria.

This paper demonstrates that protected water supplies, in the form of boreholes, can reduce the prevalence of dracunculiasis (guinea worm disease) in affected communities from a point prevalence of greater than or equal to 50% to 0% or near 0% within 3 years of intervention. Studies in Nigeria show that boreholes sited within a village and used exclusively for drinking water are most effective, while less accessible or malfunctioning boreholes have a less dramatic impact on prevalence. In contrast to the situation in villages served with boreholes, the prevalence of guinea worm in the unserved villages remained almost unchanged. The rapid benefits of protected rural water supplies and the decline of dracunculiasis, including the rise in school enrollment and fall in the rate of school absenteeism, are highlighted together with other socioeconomic benefits.

Adolescent↗