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UNICEF raises €250,000 for 'baby-friendly' hospitals in Romania
BUCHAREST, Romania, 13 May 2008 - A UNICEF fundraising event that aired on  Romanian National Television has raised €250,000 for the development of ‘baby-friendly’ hospitals in the country.

Ending child abandonment in Romania
CONSTANZA, Romania, 5 December 2006 - Irgiz Ibrahim, 26, lives with her mother and her three children in an overcrowded, run-down house here. Rubbish is strewn around the garden. Children dart in and out of gaps in the fence. The house looks in desperate need of repair.

Teenage fighter and survivor helps prevent AIDS among young people in Romania
BUCHAREST, Romania, 29 November 2006 – Between 1988 and 1990, approximately 10,000 children in Romania were diagnosed with HIV. Some 7,000 are still alive. Cristian Traicu, 18, is one of them.