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 …
A survey conducted by the ministries of health and women affairs and UNICEF shows that two out of three Nigerian children are not properly fed with the right nutrients to help them develop and grow well. Speaking on the survey, ministry of health's head of nutrition, Dr Chris Osa Isokpunwu …
178 villages in the district have achieved 100% open defecation free status; Sindhudurg tops the list. Pune district has figured second on the list of districts in the state where a large number of villages have achieved cent per cent Open Defecation Free (ODF) status, according to a recent survey …
With pneumonia emerging as one of the leading causes of mortality amo-ng children under five years of age, the government is considering introduction of Pneumococcal vaccine in the Universal Immunisation Program-me (UIP). Taking its first foot forward, the government has asked the national technical advisory group on immunisation (NTAGI) to …
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) says thousands of children born during the Ebola crisis and were not unregistered are at risk exploitation. According to UNICEF, the more than 70,000 Liberian children whose births were not recorded during the Ebola outbreak may be unable to access basic health and social …
FOUR international public health organisations including the World Health Organisation (WHO), over the weekend, warned that with Africa at risk of a large meningitis outbreak, an acute shortage of meningitis C-containing vaccine threatens to severely limit the world’s ability to minimise the number of people affected. International Federation of Red …
ISLAMABAD – The officials of UNICEF called on Federal Minister for Climate Change and congratulated him for achieving Millennium Development Goals of sanitation and improved drinking water, according to a press release of the federal government. “It is a positive story from Pakistan and needs to be celebrated and communicated …
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday said the state government has started the process to set up a "State Nutrition Commission" and formulate a "State Nutrition Policy" to address malnutrition among children. The chief minister was speaking at an event organised for the 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao" programme …
Ghana has slipped further on its sanitation performance globally to become the World’s 7th worst performing country, according to a new report released on Tuesday. The Joint Monitoring Programme report, “Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water: 2015 Update and MDG Assessment,” a collaborative effort between the World Health Organisation (WHO) …
CM's statement that state has witnessed decline in malnutrition came amid claims and counter-claims over yet-to-be released UNICEF’s Rapid Survey on Children. Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Monday asserted that malnutrition in Gujarat has fallen by 25 per cent over the last five years, and figures in the contentious UNICEF …
The number of countries reaching and sustaining 90% coverage of children with routine life-saving vaccinations has doubled since 2000. Updated data on the status of immunization worldwide in 2014 reveal that 129 countries, 6 more than in 2013, now immunize at least 90% of their children with the required 3 …
The African Union Commission launched on Monday July 13th the African Regional Nutrition Strategy (ARNS 2016-2025) a continental roadmap to enhance and promote nutrition in Africa. The strategy incorporates emerging nutrition concerns and sets clear targets, which includes the attainment of a 40 per cent reduction in stunting and a …
The UN Children's Fund ( UNICEF) on Tuesday said that up to 1.3 million children and adults "have little or no access to water in eastern Ukraine" as the ongoing violence continues in the region, a UN spokesman told reporters here. "This is due to damaged or destroyed water lines …
Clinical trials in India have again come under the regulatory scanner after the World Health Organisation (WHO) pointed out “critical“ lapses in trials of HIV drugs being conducted by a Chennaibased research organization. Following the enforcement by the United Nations' agency, the Indian regulator, Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), …
A new survey has revealed substantial disparities still exist in relation to wealth, gender and location in Bangladesh despite it made remarkable progress in many areas of the wellbeing of women and children. The complete results of the 2012-13 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), conducted by the government-run Bangladesh Bureau …
JAIPUR: Efforts are being made to intensify the fight against malnutrition among the children in the state, but still Rajasthan has 36.5% of children (under-5 years), who have stunted growth. The situation is grave in rural areas. Out of total children in rural areas, there are 39.1% children with stunted …
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched a € 5.9 million Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) project on the theme “Improving sanitation access in urban Ghana” at Ashaiman near, Accra. The project, sponsored by the Netherlands Government, under the Ghana-Netherlands Water programme, aims at curbing open defecation by building …
Islamabad - Pakistan is one of the 95 countries that have met the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for sanitation aimed at halving the proportion of the population without sustainable access to basic sanitation, says a recently launched global report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations …
Those who make do without are polluting water and jeopardising health for millions Toilets are still a luxury for a third of the world's people, who have no access to them, according to a report by the World Health Organisation and Unicef. Those who make do without toilets continue to …
UNITED NATIONS - China surpassed the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGS), a set of eight anti-poverty targets, for improving water and sanitation goals while the world as a whole met only the goal for improved drinking water, two UN agencies reported Tuesday. The New York-based UN Children's Agency (UNICEF) and …
TANZANIA has been hailed for registering major achievements in attaining Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) number four for reducing under- five mortality from 161 per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 54 per 1,000 live births now. The United Nations Children’s Funds (UNICEF) Representative, Dr Jama Gulaid, said in Dar es …
