Dossier: the United Nations works.(Devil in the Details)
American Prospect, The, May, 2005
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) shipped 5,612,257 student kits, 201,416 cartons of chalk, and 5,106,885 school bags for primary and intermediate-level schoolchildren in Iraq from the start of the Iraq War in 2003 through November 2004 ... Through UNICEF's "Immunization plus" program, the distribution of high-dose vitamin A capsules has averted at least 1 million child deaths since 1998 ...
Since the UN-sponsored Global Polio Eradication Initiative began in 1988, worldwide cases of polio have plummeted from 350,000 in 1988 to 1,263 in 2004 ... UNICEF aims to ...
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