Focus on nutrition of children with HIV: child rights commission

National AIDS Control Programme urged to move beyond medicine-centric approach

Bytes

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

State’s battered economy provides fertile ground to human traffickers

Remembering Kirk R Smith (1947-2020)

Kirk leaves us with the power of imagining change and hope 

Children make up for 80 per cent of deaths attributed to climate change

But they are the most ignored in the climate change discourse

UN to cut food supplies to African refugees

The drastic cut will affect 800,000 people in the African continent

Science and Technology - Briefs

Education policy for kids under six

Experts say the plan misses diet, care and ignores children with special needs

CHILD LABOUR

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

Australia approves laws for Aborigines

There’s biodiversity in our backyard and it can help us fight malnourishment

Green leafy veggies are rich in vitamins and minerals

Hindustan motors

Can India ever have car-free centres?

3.1 million children under five die of malnutrition annually

Study says child mortality linked to maternal undernutrition, obesity

Science and Technology - Briefs

1.2 million children in Karnataka are malnourished, state tells high court

Civil rights groups blame packaged food supplied to anganwadis 

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Chidambaram visits Bhopal on June 5

Gas disaster victims say they would like to present actual injuries, death reports

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Children don’t even have energy to cry: Gaza Strip stares at famine as Israel blocks food access

Malnutrition in northern Gaza rose from 0.8% of children under 5 years before the conflict began to over 16% at present

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  

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 …

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 …