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General Information

 World Health Report (from the World Health Organisation)

Key Health Dangers for Children (World Health Organisation)

Fact File: Ten Facts on Child Health (World Health Organisation)

External Links

 Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud which aims to fight poverty and AIDS and support the world’s orphans and vulnerable children left in the wake of the pandemic by advocating for their needs and basic rights and providing direct support to families and communities that care for them.

 Avert, an international HIV and AIDS charity, based in the UK, working to avert HIV and AIDS worldwide, through education, treatment and care.

 UCL Centre for International Health and Development, an interdisciplinary collaboration of leading academics working on health and development in a global context. They are based at the Institute of Child Health within University College London and work closely with the UCL Institute for Global Health.

 Christian Aid, a Christian organisation that seeks to eradicate poverty throughout the world by providing urgent, practical and effective assistance where necessary.

The Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development (CGECCD), a global inter-agency consortium which aims to improve early childhood policy and practice in different countries throughout the world, focusing on children in disadvantaged circumstances.

 Global ChildNET which has as its  main objectives the facilitation of global access to credible information on child-related issues and the promotion of world-wide communication about these issues.

 Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) - Doctors Without Borders, an independent international medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid in more than 60 countries to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters or exclusion from healthcare.

 The Global Health Network, the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world.  

 UNAIDS, a the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS,  is an innovative partnership that strives to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.

 World Health Organisation, the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.

Conferences

Reports, Articles and Analysis

The Impact of Violent Conflict on Child Health (Philip Verwimp, Tom Bundervoet & Richard Akresh) (April 2010)

Improving Child-Health in Post Conflict Countries: Can the World Bank Help? (Flavia Bustreo, Eleonora Genovese, Elio Omobono, Henrik Axelsson, and Ian Bannon) (June 2005) 

 Peace Building Through Health Initiatives/PGS Briefing Paper

State of the World's Children 2010 (Unicef)

State of the World's Children 2009 (Unicef)

 Loss of 9.7 Million Children Unacceptable, Says UNICEF (IPS) (January 22, 2008)

 Amnesty to defy Catholic church over rape victims' abortion rights (The Independent) (August 13, 2007)

 Dirty water 'kills 1.5m children, (BBC News) (September 28, 2006)

 Small investment would save children (BBC) (February 17, 2003)

 Bush pledges $15bn to fight AIDS (BBC) (January 29, 2003)

 UN HIV cases on the rise worldwide - Report: Global epidemic hitting Africa, south Asia hardest (CNN) (November 26, 2002)

 Drug Donations: Corporate charity or taxpayer subsidy (Mark Thomas (Channel 4 - The Mark Thomas Product) with the support of War on Want) (June 10, 2002)

Guidelines for Drug Donations (World Health Organisation) (Revised 1999)

 Baby deaths 'could be halved' (BBC) (September 18, 2001)

 Report Says AIDS Leading Cause of Death in South Africa (Reuters) (September 16, 2001)

 Poor care 'killing babies' (BBC) (September 11, 2001)

 AIDS and Human Rights: A call for Action (Human Rights Watch) (June 26, 2001)

 AIDS-Stricken Africa calls for help (BBC) (June 26, 2001)

 UN Demands AIDS Action (BBC) (June 25, 2001)

 How to Spend AIDS Fund (BBC) (June 25, 2001)

 UN: AIDS Conference Whitewash (Human Rights Watch) (June 20, 2001)

 AIDS Around the World (BBC News)

 What is AIDS? (BBC News)

A Child Rights Agenda for the Coming Decade - Statement of the Child Rights Caucus for the 2001 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children (PSR) (October 20, 2000) 

 Human Rights and the Aids Crisis: The Resources Debate (Kenneth Roth) (Human Rights Watch) (July 10, 2000)

 HIV/AIDS increasingly claims girls and women(Unicef Information Newsline) (March 8, 1999)

Kenyans Crusade for cheaper AIDs Drugs (The Guardian) (April 25, 2001) 

OSCE Human Dimension Commitments: A Reference Guide (OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights) (Warsaw,  2001)

Groundwater: the invisible and endangered resource (Unicef)

Country/Region Specific

Africa

Impact of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War on Child Health (Conflict Health) (February 27, 2011)

Kenyans Rally Against EU-India Deal on Drugs (Reuters) (December 9, 2010)

Needless Pain: Government Failure to Provide Palliative Care for Children in Kenya (Human Rights Watch) (September 9, 2010)

SOS Emergency Relief Programme in Gulu, Uganda (SOS Kinderdorf International) (October 19, 2006)

 Report highlights plight of African children (IRIN News) (March 11, 2005)

 SA healers called in to fight Aids (BBC News) (August 5, 2003)

 AIDS robbing African classrooms (Associated Press) (November 28, 2002)

 Government Neglects AIDS Orphans (Human Rights Watch) (June 24, 2001)

 In the Shadow of Death: HIV/AIDS and Children's Rights in Kenya (Human Rights Watch) (June 2001)

 Drugs Firms Drops Aids Case (BBC News) (April 19, 2001)

 Senegal bans female genital mutilation (UNICEF, Information Newsline) (January 14, 1999)

 Aids in Africa, The Orphaned Continent (BBC News)

 AIDS in Africa, The Orphaned Continent- Case Study: South Africa (BBC News)

Europe

 Russia's abandoned HIV children (BBC) (February 21, 2006)

 Mental Health, Social Functioning, and Attitudes of Kosovar Albanians Following the War in Kosovo (Barbara Lopes Cardozo, MD, MPH; Alfredo Vergara, PhD; Ferid Agani, MD; Carol A. Gotway, PhD) (2000)

Survivors of the war in the Northern Kosovo: violence exposure, risk factors and public health effects of an ethnic conflict. (Shr-Jie Wang, Mimoza Salihu, Feride Rushiti, Labinot Bala and Jens Modvig)

 Immunization of Kosovar refugee children starts in Macedonia (UNICEF, Information Newsline) (April 26, 1999)

Middle East

 Mentally handicapped children used in attacks in Iraq (IRIN) (April 10, 2007)

 Lebanon: Toxic air a major health hazard (IRIN) (August 16, 2006)

 CARE Nutritional Assessment Finds Significant Child Malnutrition in West Bank and Gaza (Save the Children) (April 2003)

Pacific

 UNICEF, Muslim rebels to immunize 30,000 Filipino children in conflict areas (Associated Press) (April 15, 2007)

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