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 …
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has signed a US$ 6.35 million (about Tk 49.42 crore) grant agreement with Unicef Bangladesh to improve access to affordable and hygienic sanitation solution for the poor and disadvantaged communities in Bangladesh, reports UNB. The agreement of the four-year project, 'Improving Sanitation …
Programme Manager at the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Dr. Dennis Marke, says Sierra Leone risk a polio importation, and that many children could be affected if nothing was done about the risk. He was speaking at the Ministry of Health and Sanitation conference hall at Youyi building in Freetown …
Khartoum — As of 3 May, 4,127 suspected cases of measles have been reported in Sudan, with 2,336 cases confirmed. The total number of deaths in 2015 has risen to 35, with recent fatalities reported in East Darfur. East, West, and North Darfur account for 25 of the 35 reported …
With climate forecasts pointing to increased water shortages, it could get even worse, particularly for southern Africa ONE morning last month Harare resident, Gwen Shoshore, woke up to a dry tap at her home in Waterfalls suburb. She was scheduled to do her laundry on that day. To do this …
A study conducted by the Social Mobilization and Behavior Change Communication at the Ministry of Health in collaboration with UNICEF has shown that radio played significant roles in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus in the country. The head of the Social Mobilization and Behavior Change Communication, Rev. John …
Nirmal Bangla draws financial support from the plans sanctioned to states under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched Swachh Bharat Mission, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has launched a sanitation drive with a different name — Mission Nirmal Bangla. The West Bengal government brought all …
Up to eight million people have had their lives disrupted after a deadly earthquake shook Nepal, said the United Nations, adding there was an urgent need for relief materials ranging from tarpaulin sheets and clean water to soap and medicines. “According to initial estimations and based on the latest earthquake …
More than 100,000 people in Vanuatu have no clean drinking water, a month after a monster cyclone struck the tiny Pacific nation, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday. Two thirds of the archipelago's water and sanitation infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed and most wells are contaminated, …
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Wednesday that 2. 5 million people or 15 percent of Niger's population are food insecure as showed in its national survey on food vulnerability in rural areas released earlier in the day. The Sahel, where Niger is located, continues …
The UN aid agencies said nearly 11 million people in Yemen are facing severe food insecurity due to the current fighting in the country, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here Wednesday. Also on Wednesday, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that nearly 10.6 million Yemenis are now severely …
Khartoum - UNICEF (Sudan) has announced the arrival of more than two million doses of measles vaccines on Tuesday, due to the outbreak of the disease recently in different parts of the country. UNICEF representative in Sudan unexplained that due to an outbreak of measles in the past two months …
MAHARASHTRA, 2010. In a village 130km (80 miles) from Mumbai, the head of a nursery is weighing a child. Four years old, she is just 10kg (22lb), two-thirds of what she should be. More than half the nursery’s charges are below their proper weight (“wasted” in the jargon) or short …
ABOUT 2.3 million people now have access to better sources of drinking water since 1990 in rural areas of Nigeria, UNICEF has said. According to the Millennium Development Goal, the target of half the percentage of the global population without access to clean water was met in 2010. But in …
Bangladesh celebrates the World Water Day today when 26 million of its citizens still have no access to safe drinking water. The theme of the day is ‘Water and Sustainable Development.’ The government as well as a host of the NGOs would celebrate the day by holding talk shows, seminars …
ISLAMABAD: More than 40 million people in Pakistan do not have access to a toilet, forcing them to defecate in the open, which in turn is a major contributor to stunting in the country, a top Unicef official said. “There are 41 million people who do not have access to …
According to a recent toll had revealed that the scare was hitting Malawi's borders more especially Mozambique borders. As of now Malawi24 can reveal that the Ministry of Health says the cases in Malawi have rapidly increased to 60 from 39 as it was initially projected. The Ministry's Spokesperson Henry …
Pakistan has wasted $3.7 million (2.4 million pounds) worth of vaccines donated to protect children from deadly diseases because officials failed to store them properly, a senior health official told Reuters on Monday. The scandal is the latest problem to be exposed in Pakistan's poorly run public health services. "We …
KATHMANDU: The government has decided to conduct a technical review of the maternal mortality related data collected in the national census. A 13-member committee coordinated by National Planning Commission member Yagya Bahadur Karki has been set up to review the analysis of maternal mortality data after a population monograph published …
Tribal children of nine Scheduled V States including Odisha need to be given proper nutrition for their growth and development, opined experts attending a two-day long national-level conclave ‘Nourishing India’s Tribal Children’ organised by the Union Tribal Affairs Ministry, the Government of Odisha and the Unicef here on Thursday. Inaugurating …
KATHMANDU: Nepal has achieved remarkable progress on reducing early childhood mortality, improving public health and nutrition and immunization, preventing deaths from diarrhea, fever and acute respiratory infection as well as improving reproductive, maternal and postnatal care, according to a report released Wednesday by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) in …
