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
Particularly vulnerable tribes: How a focus on nutrition tipped the health scale for children in remote Odisha
Better funding, community training & cultural context can improve outcomes further, say experts
Air pollution second leading risk factor for death across Africa
14% of all deaths in children under five across Africa in 2019 linked to air pollution, finds HEI report
Climate-resilient water, sanitation & hygiene policies need of hour to meet global agenda of 2030
The 10 African countries most water-insecure & climate-impacted need immediate attention
India tops global charts for childhood diabetes and deaths: Study
Almost 40% increase in cases to 2019 from 1990 globally; largest increase in cases recorded in children aged 10 to 14 years
Childhood immunisation begins to pick up post-pandemic, finds UN data
Recovery slow and unequal; coverage was 84% in 2022, down from 86% pre-pandemic
Acute malnutrition risking 30 million children’s lives: WHO
8 million children severely malnourished; UN agencies call for urgent action to protect the most vulnerable in 15 countries
Teenage pregnancies in every 3 of 5 child brides, finds CRY
Non-profit study significant proportion of adolescent mothers had low-birth-weight babies
Run-up to CoP27: Parents revive demand to cut fossil fuel financing, urge leaders to prioritise child health
Last year a delegation of mothers presented a letter signed by over a million parents to the CoP president
Poor understanding of maternal, infant mortality rates & misuse of law behind Assam child marriage crackdown
State’s poor health performance lies in larger developmental issues; Prohibition of Child Marriage and POCSO Acts being misinterpretated
Sudan conflict fallout: Over 1,200 children have died in country amid healthcare crisis, says UN
Children died from suspected measles and malnutrition; those under five account for over three-quarters of all deaths
COVID-19, poverty may have spurred child marriages in India: Activists
Numbers show one in every four in India is a child marriage, but ground situation may be even worse
Locally transmitted malaria in the US could be a harbinger of rising disease risk in a warming climate — 5 questions answered
These are first locally transmitted malaria cases in the US since 2003