The State of the World's Children 1998

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#0000EE" VLINK="#551A8B" ALINK="#FF0000"> <CENTER><IMG SRC="sowc.gif" ALT="The State of the World's Children 1998 Contents" ALIGN="TOP" BORDER="0" WIDTH="367" HEIGHT="124"></CENTER> <P></P> <CENTER> <TABLE> <TR> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"> <H6><a href="/" target="_top">Home</a> | <a href="/action/" target="_top">UNICEF in Action</a> | <a href="/highlights/" target="_top">Highlights</a> | <a href="/infores/" target="_top">Information Resources</a> | <a href="http://www.supportunicef.org" target="_top">Donations, Greeting Cards & Gifts</a> | <a href="/media/" target="_top">Press Centre</a> | <a href="/young/" target="_top">Voices of Youth</a> | <a href="/uwwide/" target="_top">About UNICEF</a></H6> </TD> </TR> </TABLE></CENTER> <CENTER> <TABLE WIDTH="84%"> <TR> <TD> <H3>Contents</H3><UL> <LI><A HREF="foreword.htm" TARGET=""><B>Foreword</B></A>, by Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations <P></P></LI> <LI><A HREF="silent.htm" TARGET=""><B>The Silent Emergency</B></A> overviews the scale of malnutrition and the complex interplay of factors that cause it, including poor health services and discrimination against women <P></P></LI> <LI><A HREF="approach.htm" TARGET=""><B>Approaches That Work</B></A> consist of community involvement, food fortification, growth monitoring and promotion, and supplementation programmes -- some of the many and often overlapping approaches that are changing, and saving, children's lives <P></P></LI> <LI><A HREF="science.htm" TARGET=""><B>Bringing Science to Bear</B></A> takes a look at the breakthroughs that science is making in the fight for better nutrition, such as the example of Vitamin A, which reduces maternal death rates by 44 per cent on average, according to a recent study <P></P></LI> <LI><A HREF="stats.htm" TARGET=""><B>Statistical Tables</B></A> chart progress towards the goals set at the 1990 World Summit for Children, covering vital indicators of the care, nurture and resources that children receive in their communities and countries <OL> <LI><A HREF="tab1.htm">Basic Indicators</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="tab2.htm">Nutrition</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="tab3.htm">Health</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="tab4.htm">Education</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="tab5.htm">Demographic Indicators</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="tab6.htm">Economic Indicators</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="tab7.htm">Women</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="tab8.htm">The Rate of Progress</A></LI> </OL> <P></P></LI> <LI><A HREF="panels.htm">Panels</A><OL> <LI><A HREF="panel1.htm">Vitamin A Supplements Save Pregnant Women's Lives</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel2.htm">What is Malnutrition?</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel3.htm">Stunting Linked to Impaired Intellectual Development</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel4.htm">Recognizing the Right to Nutrition</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel5.htm">Growth and Sanitation: What Can We Learn from Chickens?</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel6.htm">Breastmilk and Transmission of HIV</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel7.htm">High-Energy Biscuits for Mothers Boost Infant Survival by 50 per cent</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel8.htm">UNICEF and the World Food Programme</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel9.htm">Triple A Takes Hold in Oman</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel10.htm">Celebrating Gains in Children's Health in Brazil</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel11.htm">Rewriting Elias's Story in Mbeya</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel12.htm">Women in Niger Take the Lead against Malnutrition</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel13.htm">BFHI: Breastfeeding Breakthroughs</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel14.htm">Tackling Malnutrition in Bangladesh</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel15.htm">Kiwanis Mobilize to End Iodine Deficiency's Deadly Toll</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel16.htm">Indonesia Makes Strides against Vitamin A Deficiency</A> </LI> <LI><A HREF="panel17.htm">Making Food Enrichment Programmes Sustainable</A> </LI> <LI><A HREF="panel18.htm">Zinc and Vitamin A: Taking the Sting Out Of Malaria </A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel19.htm">Protecting Nutrition in Crises</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel20.htm">Progress against Worms for Pennies</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="panel21.htm">Child Nutrition a Priority for the New South Africa</A> </LI> </OL> <P></P></LI> <LI><A HREF="slights.htm">Spotlights</A><OL> <LI><A HREF="slight1.htm">World Food Summit</A> </LI> <LI><A HREF="slight2.htm">Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding</A> </LI> <LI><A HREF="slight3.htm">Vitamin A</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="slight4.htm">Zinc</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="slight5.htm">Iron</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="slight6.htm">Iodine</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="slight7.htm">Folate</A></LI> </OL> <P></P></LI> <LI><A HREF="textfigs.htm">Text Figures</A><OL> <LI><A HREF="figure1.gif">Malnutrition and Child Mortality</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="figure2.gif">Trends in Child Malnutrition by Region</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="figure3.gif">From Good Nutrition to Greater Productivity and Beyond</A> </LI> <LI><A HREF="figure4.gif">Poverty and Malnutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="figure5.gif">Causes of Child Malnutrition</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="figure6.gif">Inadequate Dietary Intake/Disease Cycle</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="figure7.gif">Intergenerational Cycle of Growth Failure</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="figure8.gif">Better Nutrition through Triple A</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="figure9.gif">Iodine Deficiency Disorders and Salt Iodization</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="fig10.gif">Progress in Vitamin A Supplementation</A> </LI> <LI><A HREF="fig11.gif">Measles Deaths and Vitamin A</A> </LI> <LI><A HREF="fig12.gif">Zinc Supplementation and Child Growth (Ecuador, 1986)</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="fig13.gif">Maternal Height and Caesarean Delivery (Guatemala, 1984-1986)</A></LI> </OL> <P></P></LI> <LI><A HREF="refs.htm">References</A> <P></P></LI> <LI><A HREF="glossary.htm">Glossary</A> <P></P> <P></P></LI> <LI><A HREF="sum01.htm">Summary</A> <P></P></LI> <LI>Fact Sheets<OL> <LI> <A HREF="fs01.htm">Malnutrition: Causes</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="fs02.htm">Summing up malnutrition's shame</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="fs03.htm">Micronutrients</A></LI> </OL> <P></P></LI> <LI>Features<OL> <LI><A HREF="feat01.htm">Child malnutrition and women's rights</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="feat02.htm">In Burundi camps, the spectre of malnutrition looms</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="feat03.htm">Malnutrition in industrialized countries</A> </LI> </OL></LI> </UL><UL> <LI><A HREF="videos.htm" TARGET="">Videos</A> <P></P></LI> </UL><UL> <LI><A HREF="pdf.htm" TARGET="">PDF Version</A> <P></P></LI> </UL> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <P></P> <TABLE WIDTH="84%"> <TR> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"> <P></P> <H6><I> <A HREF="/copyrite/">Copyright © UNICEF</A></I></H6></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> <BR><FONT SIZE="-1"><I>Please email the <A HREF="mailto:netmaster@unicef.org">netmaster@unicef.org</A> with comments, suggestions or requests for more information. 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