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• Foreword
  By Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations 

          My song against AIDS

• Commentaries: Speaking out on AIDS
  • By Femi Anikulapo-Kuti, a celebrity AIDS activist
  • By Hortense Bla Me, a campaigner for child rights

• League table: Estimated proportions (%) of 15- to 24-year-olds living with HIV/AIDS

• Data briefs: Progress and disparity
  • Survey shows what youths don't know could kill them
  • Seeing no risk in sex
  • Deceived by appearances, girl face disaster
  • Another face of AIDS: 860,000 children without teachers
  • Asia strives to control epidemic
  • Low rates must not stall action
  • Mother-to-child transmission risk better known
  • Aid for AIDS unequal to the challenge

The time to sow

• Commentary by Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of UNICEF
• Heart of development
• Investing in children
• Simple transforming steps
• Putting children first

• League table: Stunting in children under age five

• Data briefs: Progress and disparity
• Victory possible against iodine deficiency
• Weighing in for better child health
• Antenatal care could save millions
• Health care vital in stopping ARI
• Teen mothers and their children at risk

The power of immunization

• Commentary by Dr.William Foege,
  Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
• A spotty scorecard
• A revolution only for some
• A clear and common enemy

• League table: The DPT3 coverage measure
• Immunization drop-out rates signal flawed systems

• Data briefs: Progress and disparity
• Polio: Eradication within sight
• Plans to save more children with Hib vaccine
• Poor countries pay for vaccines
• Tetanus: Infants and mothers at high risk

The lost children

• Commentary by Juan Somavía, Director-General of the International Labour Organization
• Reckless endangerment
• Action, not words
• Education, the key
• Global moral imperative

• Data briefs: Progress and disparity
• City to countryside: A long way to go in schooling
• Out of school: The orphan's dilemma
• Battles won, but FGM war still rages
• More teens smoking in industrialized countries
• Billions still lack clean water and sanitation
• Halt in overall aid decline, but no sustained increase seen
• Rich countries: Where 47 million children are poor

Statistical tables

• Statistical profiles
• Less populous countries
• Age of data
• Abbreviations

  Profiles

• Femi Anikulapo-Kuti
• Hortense Bla Me
• Dr. William Foege
• Juan Somavía

   

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