Cyclic droughts in Marathwada fuels underage ‘gate-cane’ marriages

Practice of 'gate-cane weddings' convert adolescent girls into wives and labourers 

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

Union Budget 2019-20: Status quo remains for children

Allocation needed to be increased after being nearly stagnant for years

Education is key to freeing the girl child from deeply entrenched social barriers

NCRB data shows 33 girls forced into child marriage every day in 2021

Simply Put: Child marriage, India’s shame

Simply Put: Beti Bachao

Child marriage twice as prevalent in Nigeria’s rural areas than urban: Report

The overall rate of child marriage in the country has declined

Dahi Handi and the fall of young govindas

Under the veneer of celebration, lives of minors in Maharashtra are put at stake  

Simply Put: Marriage and employment

Lost childhood: COVID-19, floods trigger child trafficking in Bihar

State’s battered economy provides fertile ground to human traffickers

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

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

Anganwadi workers hit the streets in protest

Allege government failure in implementation of remuneration hike, other demands not met

Mother-child bonding

In pursuit of gender equality: Interpreting India’s changing sex ratio & strategies to adopt

While recent improvements are noteworthy, we are far from winning the battle for gender equality

Simply Put: Pediatrics department

Unsure about sugar

Children as court witnesses: Compassion needed to protect minors from trauma

The role of medical practitioners assumes significance in handling such cases

Incidence of childhood cancer has increased: Lancet study

The study also revealed cancer occurrence in adolescents