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 …
Says a recent report released by WHO and UNICEF An estimated 19.9 million infants worldwide did not receive routine services such as three doses of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP3) vaccine in 2017. Around 60% of these children live in 10 countries — Afghanistan, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, …
As part of commitment to ensure hygienic environment for healthy living, open defecation now attracts seven lashes and N200 fine in Unguwan Damaru in Soba Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Adda’u Ibrahim, the community’s Chairman of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Committee, said that in addition to seven lashes …
Abuja — The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and an international non-governmental organisation, WaterAid, have revealed in separate but unified documents that 87 per cent (165.3 million) of Nigerians are without basic hygiene facilities in a conservative population of 190 million. The reports, as revealed by the World Health Organisation/United …
UNICEF is warning that hundreds of thousands of severely malnourished children in Mali are at risk of dying, as the security situation in the country worsens. The United Nations reports that attacks by extremists and criminals in northern and central Mali are rising at an alarming rate, with many civilians …
Gujarat gets $2m project for HIV prevention and care AHMEDABAD: Gujarat became the first state of India last week to launch Unified Budget, Responsibility and Accountability Framework (UBRAF) project. The project, to be implemented by department of health and family welfare, Government of Gujarat, is supported by seven UN agencies …
Five million people in West Africa's Sahel region will need food aid in the coming months following a drought, but current funding will be insufficient to prevent starvation, the United Nations said on Thursday. Six countries in the Sahel, a semi-arid belt below the Sahara, are facing the worst hunger …
The United Nation Children's Fund (UNICEF) said it has facilitated N70 million loan to 3,000 households to construct improved toilets in four states of the country through some Micro Finance Institutions (MFI's) under the fund's Sanitation Marketing programme. The information is contained in a statement signed by Mr Amir Hamza …
Aminu Dayyabu, Executive Director, Katsina State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA), says 1.3 million people have gained access to clean water between 2015 and March 2018 in the state. He said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Katsina. He said that …
South Sudan has gone 15 months without a single reported case of Guinea worm disease, the nation's health minister said on Wednesday, suggesting a major victory for global health officials trying to eliminate the debilitating affliction. Also, the Carter Centre said only 30 cases were reported last year in isolated …
Abidjan - The infant mortality rate in Ivory Coast has halved in 20 years, the planning and development minister said on Monday, pointing to better and more accessible health care. Niale Kaba said the probability of an infant dying before turning one had dropped from 112 for every 1 000 …
About $8 billion needs to be invested annually in providing potable water in Nigeria, if the country must achieve Goal 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. SDGs Goal 6 aims at ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. An official of the United …
Kinshasa — A raging cholera outbreak has killed more than 150 people in Central and West Africa since the beginning of the year. The unstable Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the worst affected by the crisis that has claimed the lives of at least 153 victims in the two …
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday said it will use over 30 million euros received from the German government to tackle high malnutrition among children and provide safe water and sanitation to thousands in South Sudan. Mahimbo Mdoe, the UNICEF Representative in South Sudan, told journalists …
The warning comes after three United Nations agencies warned that 7 million people in South Sudan risk facing severe food insecurity in the coming months without sustained humanitarian assistance and access to those in need. Particularly at risk, it said, are 155,000 people, including 29,000 children, who are likely to …
Japan has given a grant of US$800 000 (approximately N$9.5 million) to the government of Namibia to help address the health needs of the most vulnerable citizens in the seven northern regions affected by recurrent drought and floods. The objective of the funds, funneled through the United Nations Children’s Fund …
Minna — The Niger State government has confirmed 31 cases and four deaths to Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) in the state. Laboratory tests conducted around the state showed the outbreak of the disease in a number of local councils. Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mustapha Jibril, disclosed this at a press briefing …
A total of 817 cholera cases, resulting in 10 deaths have been reported this year, a Unicef-Kenya report shows. Seven counties are still reporting an active cholera outbreak. They are Nairobi, Garissa, Embu, Kirinyaga, Mombasa, Turkana and Wajir. The outbreak has, however, been controlled in Kirinyaga and Mombasa counties. Since …
Rabat – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has unveiled a new report about the troubling issue of newborn deaths around the world on February 20. 2.6 million babies die before turning one month old, with 2 millions of them dying on the day of their birth. And another 2.6 …
India ranks 12th in newborn mortality rates. HYDERABAD: The number of newborn deaths in India is 25 per 1,000 live births, which constitutes nearly a quarter of the newborn deaths globally, according to ‘Being Alive’, a report released by UNICEF on Tuesday. Bangladesh does better with 20.1 and Pakistan and …
Jaipur: Stage is all set for launch of national nutrition mission (NNM) in the state. It will come as a hope for under-5 children of a state having 39 per cent of stunted growth, 23 per cent wasted growth and 9 per cent severely wasted growth (figures from National Family …
