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Nearly 500,000 children died each year of preventable causes, including dehydration and respiratory illnesses.
About 2 million people, 0.5 per cent of the population, had contracted HIV and the number of Latin American and Caribbean children orphaned by the spread of AIDS had reached 195,000, second only to sub-Saharan Africa.
At least 85,000 children a year died in domestic violence. In Argentina, still suffering the aftershocks of its economic crisis, malnutrition among children was a big problem.
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