Sentences with phrase «affect millions of children»

Child Abuse and Trauma Child abuse and violence affect millions of children each year.

Vitamin A deficiency is a serious public health problem affecting millions of children and pregnant women globally.

It affects millions of children and adults annually and is the second leading cause of infection in the body (9).

In 2015, world leaders will make decisions affecting millions of children around the world, as explained in these factsheets.

To help end a global phenomenon that affects millions of children, families and communities worldwide, UNESCO and UN Women are releasing today a Global Guidance on Addressing School Related Gender - Based Violence.

Youth depression is a problem of major proportions, affecting millions of children and families and interfering with children's social, emotional, and academic functioning.

Not exact matches

While 127 staff members in India are being laid off, the loss of 8 percent of Compassion's 1.9 million sponsored children worldwide won't affect its US staff, Mellado said.

Vitamin A deficiency affects 1.7 million children (15.2 %) in the Philippines and 33.5 % of pre-school children worldwide — far too many.

In the Philippines, vitamin A deficiency still affects approximately 1.7 million children (15.2 %) aged 6 months to 5 years while in Bangladesh, more than half of preschool and school children are affected.

We often tell people that about a cup of Golden Rice can provide half of an adult's vitamin A needs, but for them to actually see the simple rice grains that could help nations overcome a public health problem affecting 190 million children has an impact all its own.

Most recently, we partnered with Feed the Children to provide nearly 3 million bottles of water to those affected in the Flint, MI water crisis and more than 1.2 million bottles of water to communities impacted by the catastrophic floods in Louisiana.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that childhood obesity affects approximately 12.5 million children and teens in the United States (17 % of that population).

Last week, the Washington Post reported that the Urban School Food Alliance (USFA), a forward - thinking group of six large urban school districts, is using its considerable joint purchasing power to replace the spork with compostable forks, spoons and knives, a change that reportedly will affect 2.8 million children in 4,500 schools.

An alarming number of 6.6 million children in the United States alone are affected by child abuse every year according to Childhelp.

True food allergies affect 15 million Americans, including 6 million children, with one in six at significant risk of anaphylaxis.

Millions of children are being raised in poverty, which numerous studies indicate affects their health, wealth, and education throughout their lives.

The goal of the Million Moms Challenge is to focus our collective will on the issues that most affect women and children on this planet...

Up to 1.7 million children could be affected by devastating impact of Super Typhoon Haiyan in Philippines: UNICEF 9 November 2013

As number of children affected by Super Typhoon Haiyan rises to 4 million, UNICEF steps up emergency response 10 November 2013

The standards also increased the portion sizes of fruits and vegetables and required students to select at least 1 serving of fruits and / or vegetables.4 Because the National School Lunch Program reaches more than 31 million students each day in 99 % of US public schools and 83 % of private schools, the new standards have the potential to significantly and consistently affect the nutritional health of children.5

I Camp Kesem to serve a portion of the millions of children who are affected by their parents cancer each year, and to provide these children with a loving, supportive community of campers who are experiencing the same feelings at home.

Experts say that the chronic diseases that affect millions of American adults each year - heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporiasis - get their start before and during the elementary school years when children are developing their dietary habits.

Over 17 million American children suffer from a psychiatric disorder — more than the number of children affected by leukemia, diabetes and AIDS combined.

An Expert Panel on how the AHCA could affect Health Care in New York State ~ «The House of Representatives recently passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA)-- a bill that, if passed, will leave 2.7 million New Yorkers without health insurance and will roll back protections for women, children and anyone with preexisting conditions.

«Yet the Government continues to adversely affect the life chances of millions of children and young people with potential cuts to tax credits and a failure to tackle poverty.

Although Erie County health officials do not have a precise number of children affected, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz proposed $ 3.75 million over five years for lead prevention, a portion of which will address the lack of case management for these children diagnosed with levels of 5 to 9 micrograms.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

The walkout is also set to hit four out of five schools, affecting seven million children, as union members defy calls from David Cameron to call off the industrial action.

She also noted that «millions of children» are affected by violence in the home and that three adult women are killed daily, and that even elderly females fall prey to abusers.

Indeed, at least 50 million Americans already suffer from these ailments; asthma alone affects one in nine American adults and nearly 10 percent of children.

«Asthma and airway allergic responses are among the most common chronic diseases in childhood affecting more than 6 million children in the US,» said John Wherry, Ph.D., Deputy Editor of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology.

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects more than 300 million people worldwide including 10 to 20 percent of children.

It is a common problem, particularly in women who have had children, and affects millions of people worldwide.

Asthma affects close to 26 million people in the United States, 7 million of them children.

Malnutrition affects millions of people worldwide and is responsible for one - fifth of deaths in children under the age of five.

The CDC says about 3.2 million people in the United States are affected by the hepatitis C infection, out of which Teckman believes 5 percent are children.

A Source: Eggs, milk, liver, fish, spinach, carrots, sweet potatoes Effects of deficiency: Weakened immune system, night blindness; hinders embryological development Who's at risk: Alcoholics, infants in poor countries with foods low in beta - carotene; people in Africa and Southeast Asia, where polished rice, which lacks the vitamin, is a staple Fortification options: Milk, oil, margarine Estimated millions of children affected: 140

The chronic disease — which affects about 2 million people in the U.S. and is diagnosed in 13,000 children each year — is an autoimmune disorder, in which disease - fighting cells attack pancreatic cells that produce insulin, a hormone that regulates the level of glucose (sugar) in the blood.

Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, affects more than 20 million people in the U.S. Researchers estimate that one in three children born this century will get diabetes at some point in their lives.

Each year millions of Americans suffer from digestive illness with these problems affecting men, women and children alike.

Approximately 30 million children — more than 1/3 of our kids — are affected by one of the four new childhood epidemics — allergies, asthma, ADHD and autism, earning our children the title of «Generation Rx» and these condition the title «the 4As.»

Food allergies affect around 15 million Americans, including one of every thirteen children (3).

Those with celiac disease, the most well - known gluten - sensitivity condition, suffer with inflammation and damage to the lining of the small intestine resulting in diarrhea, malabsorption and nutritional deficiencies.28, 29 Gluten troubles have been linked to failure to thrive in infants and delayed growth in older children.30 Research reveals that non-celiac gluten sensitivity, or immune reactions to gluten, may affect as many as 90 million Americans.28 Kenneth Fine, MD, director of the Intestinal Health Institute in Dallas, Texas believes 60 - 70 percent of the population possesses the genes that make a person susceptible to developing gluten sensitivity.31

Infertility affects about 10 percent of couples wanting to have children, or more than 6 million Americans.

Drugs for restless leg syndrome dull the body and brain and don't address the underlying cause of a condition that affects 5 million adults and 1 million children.

Among children ages 2 to 19 years, the prevalence of obesity is 17 percent and affects about 12.7 million children and adolescents.

Of the 75 million children worldwide who are out of school, more than half are living in situations of conflict and millions more live in areas affected by natural disasters, according to Faryal Khan, Ed.D.» 05, who leads the education program for the Gulf states and Yemen for the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) located in Doha, QataOf the 75 million children worldwide who are out of school, more than half are living in situations of conflict and millions more live in areas affected by natural disasters, according to Faryal Khan, Ed.D.» 05, who leads the education program for the Gulf states and Yemen for the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) located in Doha, Qataof school, more than half are living in situations of conflict and millions more live in areas affected by natural disasters, according to Faryal Khan, Ed.D.» 05, who leads the education program for the Gulf states and Yemen for the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) located in Doha, Qataof conflict and millions more live in areas affected by natural disasters, according to Faryal Khan, Ed.D.» 05, who leads the education program for the Gulf states and Yemen for the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) located in Doha, Qatar.

Globally, 35 % or 22 million of all out - of - school children of primary education age, 25 % of all adolescents of lower secondary age (15 million), and 18 % or 26 million of all out - of - school youths of upper secondary age live in areas affected by conflict.

A new paper by UNESCO's Education For All Global Monitoring Report (EFA GMR) shows that 34 million children and adolescents are out of school in conflict - affected countries.

Undocumented status affects more than 1 million children today, which is about one - third of all immigrant youth.