December
Browse December 2008
- Tuesday 30 December 2008 Grave threat that Gaza violence will leave thousands more children malnourished
- Monday 29 December 2008 Children are main victims of Gaza conflict
- Save the Children is calling for an immediate end to the violence in Gaza following reports that at least 32 children have been killed in Israeli air strikes.
- Saturday 27 December 2008 Child malnutrition in Zimbabwe increasing as emergency aid pipeline falters
- Acute child malnutrition in parts of Zimbabwe has increased by almost two thirds compared with last year, according to Save the Children.
- Thursday 11 December 2008 Zimbabwe cholera epidemic ‘worsening’
- Speaking from the agency’s HQ in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare today, Save the Children’s country director Rachel Pounds said: “If anything is certain in the chaos of Zimbabwe today it is that the cholera outbreak is not under control.”
- Wednesday 10 December 2008 Countries struggling to slow increase in child hunger
- Hunger is now the biggest threat to child development across the world, with global progress on eradicating malnutrition slowing, stalling, or sliding into reverse in some countries.
- Thursday 4 December 2008 International Community must respond to Zimbabwe cholera emergency
- Save the Children today said the international community must put politics aside and respond quickly to the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, now that the government has openly declared it a national emergency.
- Thursday 4 December 2008 Mothers-to-be face death in Zimbabwe
- Hundreds of pregnant women in Zimbabwe face death because of a near-total collapse of health services, Save the Children warned today
- Monday 1 December 2008 Anthrax infections bring new misery to cholera-hit Zimbabwe
- A deadly outbreak of anthrax has killed two children and one adult and is threatening to wipe out at least 60,000 livestock in Zimbabwe’s northern Zambezi Valley, Save the Children warned today
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