Multidimensional poverty affects 2/3rd of children in rural Nigeria: UNICEF

Larger proportion of children involved in economic labour were multi-dimensionally poor

AES outbreak: This is not the first time Harsh Vardhan promised Muzaffarpur virology lab

He made the same claim five years ago, but nothing has happened

Food and beverage products marketed by music stars are unhealthy

A new study reveals an unprecedented surge in ads on unhealthy food targeting children

How wind lures mosquitoes

Spread of malaria depends on the direction of wind

Babies in the dark

Leaving a light on in a sleeping baby's room may actually be harmful

Not kidding

Children in developing countries continue to suffer, claims UNICEF

World Environment Day 2023: How a teen climate crusader battled poverty, abuse after Cyclone Yaas

Across the world, there are millions of children who have been displaced from a stable life by climate-change induced natural calamities

Multiple exclusions push Odisha’s children into malnutrition death

Nearly 90 per cent of the rural tribal households live in extreme distress conditions with no liquid cash

Over-emphasis on safety means kids are becoming more anxious and less resilient

Overprotected children are more likely to both internalise problems (anxiety, depression) and externalise them (delinquency, defiance or …

Remembering 2022: What it meant for India’s children  

As the year comes to a close and we gear up to welcome 2023, here’s revisiting some of the major events this year that significantly …

Imminent threat: WHO warns 40 million children susceptible to measles as outbreak intensifies in India

There has been a ‘steady decline’ in measles vaccination coverage since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO says  

Around 66% children below 2 years don't get nutritious diet: UNICEF

The diets of children in this age group have not improved in the last decade  

Mother’s Day 2021: Reducing early pregnancy is key to safe motherhood

Only a healthy mother can give birth to and raise a healthy child and can break the vicious cycle of intergenerational malnutrition

93% children below 15 exposed to toxic air: report

Risk is higher in low and middle-income countries where 98% of children under 5 live in conditions where PM 2.5 levels are above WHO guidelines

56 million children are projected to die in next 12 years

Totally preventable diseases killed 15,000 children every day in 2017 and the future seems bleak if the trend continues, say the latest mortality …

Love in the time of Zika

South American countries have advised couples to not have children for up to two years. This pregnancy advice could have a profound societal …

Countries mull strategies to achieve SDGs on maternal and child mortality

Sustainable Development Goals demand end of preventable deaths of newborns and children under five years of age, by 2020

Free fruit, free pesticides

The story of uk's five-a-day school meal programme

India still has a high rate of malnutrition, reveals new National Health Survey

West Bengal has more wasted children than a decade ago

Bad shot

Swine flu injection may raise sleep disorder risk

Unsung babies

Exposure to ddt increases the risk of child mortality

Posterity at peril

Crunch metals cure diarrhoea

In short

Coke's multiple fractures

Ban on soft drinks in US schools; Kerala plant closed