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UNITED NATIONS, United States – An estimated five million children under the age of five died in 2021, the United Nations said Tuesday, urging health care investment in underserved communities around the globe to avoid this "immense, intolerable and mostly preventable loss of life." Children...

More than 1.5 million children across the globe have lost a parent or caregiver during the first 14 months of the pandemic, according to a new study. RAWPIXEL/ MANILA BULLETIN In a study published by The Lancet medical journal on Tuesday, the researchers estimated that 1,562,000 children have...