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At a news conference organized by unicef, experts said that insufficient consumption of iodine was at once both the most prevailing and most preventable cause of brain damage anywhere around the world. Iodine deficiency is the leading cause of mental retardation, producing typical reductions in IQ often to fifteen points. Interestingly, selenium deficiency can exacerbate the effects of iodine deficiency. It's okay to supplement with iodine if you are taking thyroid medication like Synthroid or Armour thyroid.

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UNICEF MAGIC - media activities and good ideas by, with and for children) Mind the gap The positive side of life in the electronic village described on pages 266-270 applies mainly to wealthier families, the sort of people who would read this book, and probably have broadband access, sophisticated viewing habits and a high level of media literacy. As such parents wise up to the pros and cons of twenty-first-century technology, they take steps to protect their children from harm and ensure they reap the many benefits of life in a digital world.

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The World Bank program in Turkey has been augmented by the unicef program Haydi Ktzlar Okula! ("Let's go to school, girls!"), which goes even further toward addressing the 7 percent gender gap between boys' and girls' school enrollment that leaves nearly 600,000 Turkish girls uneducated (according to the "World Bank Development Report"). The program offers tax credits of 100 percent to any private group or organization that donates to it, and uses that money to give families a 20 percent refund on the cost of their daughters' education.

Turkey has been striving to gain membership in the European Union since 1987—one reason its government accepted the unicef program. The Copenhagen criteria for membership, which a country must accept if it wants to join the EU, call for each national government to guarantee full human rights plus respect for and protection of minorities. Since the cohorts of today's primary-school-aged girls will be entering the job market at the same time the country is expected to become an EU member, educating girls is in Turkey's best interests in more ways than one.

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In 2002, Commercial Alert organized an international coalition of health advocates and professionals to protest the collaboration of unicef with McDonald's to sponsor "McDonald's World Children's Day." One concrete step that can be taken in local communities is to form groups that can work with local press, community leaders, and schools to make the public aware of commercialism and to seek specific changes. For instance, Seattle parents gathered examples of advertising in schools and successfully halted school commercialism in their area.65 "The kids we're reaching are consumers in training.

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The products need to be subsidized by the public sector—World Bank, USAID, unicef. There's a negotiated bulk price, which you would think would be rewarding because of large volume but has not been understood to be rewarding." Harrison and other public-health advocates have been trying for years to get money to develop gels women could apply vaginally to protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has estimated that such a product could avert between 2.5 and 3.

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Children are Paying the Third World Debt With Their Lives 1988 SYNOPSIS: A key finding in the unicef report, "The State of the World's Children," issued late in 1988 revealed that nine hundred million people, mostly women and children, suffered because their nations used essential resources to repay debts to bankers in industrialized nations. UNICEF Executive Director James Grant called for a world summit to save an estimated three million children who he said die each year from easily preventable diseases.

And, according to a unicef report also cited in Maclean's (9/2/96), 300,000 children in the United States are involved in prostitution. The situation may only get worse. The New York Daily News (2/25/96) reported the "projected growth of the 'at risk' 13-to-17 age group over the next ten years will mean that the nation will see a dramatic increase in crime.

The 1996 unicef report, "The State of the World's Children," changed the focus from the impact of poverty to that of war. In the past ten years, the report says, wars have left two million children dead, four million to five million disabled, and 12 million homeless. Further, as reported in World Press Review (January 1996), "The 1990s have brought a vicious new breed of warfare" as guerrilla and government armies have resorted to the use of children to fill the role of combatants.

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In fact, unicef has been waging a feud against the industry since the 1970s."44 Here, public relations efforts achieved press coverage favoring corporate interests in exploiting a difficult and complex situation. The wicked complexity of dealing with AIDS transmission by breastfeeding mothers is illustrated by the results of recent studies. Among African women with AIDS, for example, drug therapy at birth can reduce transmission rates by about half, but some of the protective effects disappear if breast-feeding continues.

Defending her agency against such charges, Carol Bellamy, the director of unicef, explained, When we think that a company—any company—may offer a compelling solution to a crucial child health problem such as HIV/AIDS, we will explore how to get that company working on behalf of children and women . . . Are the issues complex? Yes. Is the growing calamity of HIV/AIDS forcing us all to consider new approaches to our work? Absolutely . . .

At a Montreal meeting of the International Congress on Nutrition in 1997,1 heard unicef deputy director Stephen Lewis berate conference organizers for their ready acceptance of sponsorship from makers of infant formulas and for their pandering to the obdurate self-interest of infant-formula companies who continue to ply their activities we know are essentially hostile to breast-feeding . . . there is no justification for nutritionists, of all people, taking money from companies that peddle milk powder for babies—period. . . . This congress consists of believers in nutritional excellence.

When such statements succeeded only in increasing public recognition of the boycott and recruiting more people to it, the company asked Senator Kennedy to take the matter to two relevant agencies of the United Nations—the World Health Organization (WHO) and unicef (United Nations Children's Fund)—and ask them to call a meeting to establish guidelines that the company could live with. Nestle also flatly denied the charges, arguing that the issues were complex and were misunderstood by opponents: "All consumer advertising of formula products has been suspended in developing countries . . .

Pressures unicef to promote infant formula as a way to prevent maternal AIDS transmission. the United Church of Christ, as well as r50 orders of the Roman Catholic Church, that they are involved in some worldwide conspiracy to undermine or attack the free world's economic system? . . . dr. ballerin: ...

Convinces unicef to mediate the boycott. 1984 Joins 32 other companies from 17 nations to establish common industry policies on the Code. r988 Sponsors the book Infant Feeding: Anatomy of a Controversy to present its version of this history. Proposes formula-feeding as a way to protect infants against transmission of AIDS through breast milk. r990 Advertises Carnation formulas directly to parents. Gives $500,000 in gifts to U.S. universities. Gives $1 million to establish Nestle Foundation for Nutrition and Health (Cleveland, OH).

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