Rome (Fides Service) - Eleven million children under 5 die every years of diseases easily prevented by vaccination. In southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa more than 50 million school age children have no access to instruction; 150 million children in developing countries are underweight due to poverty; since 1990 war has killed more than 2 million children and injured another 6 million. These are some of the figures given in a UNICEF Report 2003 on the situation of the children in the world. The AIDS pandemic continues to strike in Africa: in ten sub-Saharan countries more than 15% of children under 15 have lost one or both parents to AIDS. By 2010 in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe the percentage of orphans is expected to rise to 20%. A considerable part of the world's children spend these brief years involved in the worst forms of child labour: 180 million children between 5 and 17 years of age. Trafficking of minors, a business of 1 million dollars involves 1,200,000 children and adolescents. When the report was presented this morning, the Italian section of UNICEF announced the names of two UNICEF award winners: Congolese Maguy Makusudi who runs a centre for street children in Kinshasa, the first Amerindian governor of Colombia, Floro Alberto Tunubala Paja, promoter of a development programme to improve the lives of children, women and families. SL (Fides Service 11/12/2002)