UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
More than half a billion children live in areas with extremely high flood occurrence and 160 million in high drought severity zones, leaving them highly exposed to the impacts of climate change, UNICEF said Tuesday. Of the 530 million children in the flood-prone zones, some 300 million live in countries …
United Nations: Nearly 690 million of the world's 2.3 billion children live in areas most exposed to climate change, facing higher rates of death, poverty and disease from global warming, the UN children's agency said today. Almost 530 million children live in countries hardest-hit by high floods and tropical storms, …
Some two million Sudanese children under five suffer from malnutrition every year, UNICEF’s representative said, urging the international community to boost funding to tackle the problem. Of those two million, nearly 5,50,000 children have life-threatening severe acute malnutrition, with many of those affected living in the underdeveloped east and conflict-hit …
Poor sanitation and open defecation, which continue to be the bane of the Ghanaian society, has robbed the nation of over 4,500 of its youth through the outbreak of diarrhoea in 2014 alone. According to a report by the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF), an additional 247 people died …
Some two million Sudanese children under five suffer from malnutrition every year, UNICEF's representative said on Sunday, urging the international community to boost funding to tackle the problem. Of those two million, nearly 550,000 children have life-threatening severe acute malnutrition, with many of those affected living in the underdeveloped east …
The Chief of Field Office of the United Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF) Sokoto state, Mr. Mohammad Mohiuddin, Tuesday said at least 40,099 children currently suffer from severe acute malnutrition in the state. Speaking at a one-day seminar for media practitioners in Sokoto, Mohiuddin said such children with severe acute malnutrition were …
A mobile app will soon be put to use to help the West Bengal government monitor sanitation initiatives in schools across districts. "In Malda district all school inspectors and teachers will be equipped with the mobile app from next month. "They will be monitoring whether toilets are functional, whether they …
Khartoum — The Unicef representative in Sudan warned that polio may break out in the country's conflict-affected regions. Speaking on the occasion of the World Polio Day on Friday, Unicef representative Geert Cappelaere said that 99.9 percent of the work to eradicate polio worldwide is done, but a significant part …
The United Na tions has issued a dire warning to India over its abysmally high infant and maternal mortality rate. UNICEF has projected that if current trends of un der-five mortality rate con tinue, by 2030 just five coun tries will account for more than half of all under-five deaths …
The European Union (EU) on Monday gave Zimbabwe 89 million Euros (100 million U.S. dollars) to support the southern African country's health, agriculture and institutional governance programs. The grant is part of the 234 million Euros (270 million U.S. dollars) five-year funding support committed to Zimbabwe by the EU under …
In 2000, the Millennium Development Goals pledged to halt and to begin to reverse the incidence of malaria by 2015. By September 2015, according to new research by the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) and the World Health Organization (WHO), the rate of new infections had declined by some 37% …
UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the World Bank Group today released updated estimates on child malnutrition, including stunting, wasting and excessive weight. These figures update the child malnutrition numbers in recently released 2015 Global Nutrition Report and today's new estimates include data from 62 new surveys from 57 countries. …
United Nations agencies, UNICEF, WHO as well as the Washington-based World Bank have said Mozambique is part of a group of ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa that have achieved half of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for reducing child mortality.In a joint report sent to APA on …
To enhance community-based initiatives in educating mothers and caregivers on nutrition issues, the West Bengal government is observing National Nutrition Week till next Monday. "We are carrying out a series of convergent and well-coordinated activities in different sectors in a mission mode to address the issues which may lead to …
President Yahya Jammeh has made a declaration that The Gambia would be "open defecation-free" by 2017. The declaration was announced by the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, who represented the Gambian leader at the launching ceremony on "Ending Open Defecation" in The Gambia, held at the Dalagas Community in …
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), on Thursday, expressed worry that despite the huge natural resources that Nigeria is blessed with, it still loses no fewer than 500,000 infants to malnutrition yearly. The international donor agency, which began a two-day workshop today in Calabar, capital of Cross River state, for …
Concerted efforts are on in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to bring ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) in the government policy after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s homestate, Gujarat, initiated the proposal of introducing it as a viable solution for treating children from the worst form of malnutrition. Sources say while the …
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday that 1.8 million children in Yemen are likely to suffer from malnutrition by the end of this year. Anthony Lake, UNICEF's executive director, released the figure in a statement, while expressing his concerns about the current humanitarian situation in Yemen, especially the …
THE United Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Yobe State Government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on how to improve the state's water supply and sanitation schemes, including the development of the education sector in the next two years. Signing the MoU Friday at the Government House, Damaturu, Governor Ibrahim …
Three million Sudanese children under the age of five are suffering from severe malnutrition, according to the UN Children’s Agency (UNICEF).In its weekly bulletin seen by APA on Sunday, UNICEF said the Sudan National S3M survey conducted in 2013 revealed that 128 of the total 184 localities in the country …
