Nestle adds almost 3 grams of sugar in every serving of baby food Cerelac sold in India
WHO guidelines against adding honey or sugar in food for infants violated only in Asian, African and Latin American countries, finds …
Africa Union Commission calls for acceleration of efforts towards malnutrition-free Africa
Experts at the meeting called to strengthen school feeding programmes to alleviate hunger, reap psychological benefits like increased …
Whooping cough cases outbreak reported around the world
China, Australia, Spain among countries with high number of patients with the respiratory infection
World Bank study reveals high temperatures linked to lower exam scores in Ethiopia
Students exposed to higher temperatures during the school year, particularly on exam days, tend to perform worse than their cooler-climate …
The Gambia may allow female genital mutilation again – another sign of a global trend eroding women’s rights
Proposed changes before parliament could permit medicalised female genital cutting and allow it for consenting adults
Ethiopia’s flagship health project considers behavioural change, prevention to address NCDs among women, children
Africa CDC eager to extract lessons from the project and extend them to other AU member states
Almost 5 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2022, finds UN report
A neonatal death happened every 14 seconds, one under five death every 6 seconds
Major droughts make women 35 per cent more likely to be underweight: New study
Teenage pregnancy & intimate partner violence also grew after drought episodes
Simply Put: Pediatrics department
Simply Put: Child wasting in India
Simply Put: Free with your baby powder
COVID-19 pandemic & children: Omicron unlikely to increase threat in children
Hasty vaccination of healthy young people will have little benefit
Union Budget 2019-20: Status quo remains for children
Allocation needed to be increased after being nearly stagnant for years
In polluted Delhi, children have no place to hide from diseases
Seasonal measures, graded action not enough when millions of children are at risk of chronic ailments
Simply Put: Gifts from Santa, anyone?
Global food crisis: 1 new child suffers severe malnutrition every 60 seconds, says UNICEF
Almost 8 million children, mainly in Africa, at risk of deaths from severe wasting
A neglected tragedy: 2 million stillbirths in 2019, flags report
A majority of stillbirths happened in sub-Saharan Africa
Children in 48 African countries at high risk of climate change impacts, says UNICEF report
International climate finance does not prioritise children, says UNICEF
Simply Put: Age of inequality
Diarrhoea in children under 5 more prevalent in rural India: NFHS-5
Bihar reported the highest prevalence of the disease
India has world’s highest number of children with severe acute malnutrition: UNICEF
One out of every five deaths in children under five globally is due to severe wasting
Extreme weather impact: 20,000 children displaced every day in last 6 years
At least three of every 10 persons displaced across the world due to weather-related disasters was a child
Paediatric beds fill up in West Bengal as adenovirus spreads, 3 deaths recorded
Doctors have seen an at least 50 per cent increase in cases this year compared to usual
Anaemia in women, children aggravated in 2019: NFHS-5
As many as 68.4% children and 66.4% women surveyed suffered from anaemia in 2019
India bags top spot in child wasting rate: Global Hunger Index
The rate increased to 20.8 per cent among children under five this year