For the besieged residents of Gaza who have so far survived Israel’s bombs and bullets, a silent, invisible killer is now stalking them: disease. A lack of food, clean water and shelter have worn down hundreds of thousands of traumatised people and, with a health system on its knees, it’s inevitable epidemics will rip through … Read more
The head of the United Nations children’s agency on Wednesday called the besieged Gaza Strip “the most dangerous place in the world to be a child,” and said that the hard-won truce deal between Israel and Hamas was not enough to save their lives. UNICEF‘s executive director Catherine Russell told the UN Security Council that … Read more
Dhaka: Millions of adolescents in Bangladesh will be able to access health information and services through two online portals launched at the National Adolescent Health Conference. The Adolescent Health website and mobile application, launched by the Bangladeshi Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with support from the UN children’s fund UNICEF and the Embassy of … Read more
CNN — The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, said it remains deeply concerned by reports of children being killed, injured, and detained in Iran, it said in a statement on Friday, adding that the reported deaths of children at anti-government protests “must stop.” An “estimated 50 children have reportedly lost their lives in the public … Read more
NEW DELHI: Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp said on Friday it was partnering with CyberPeace Foundation to create awareness on cyber safety among students. WhatsApp said the partnership aims to reach about 15,000 students in five Indian states including Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharashtra by the end of this year as part of a … Read more
The NITI Aayog and UNICEF have entered into a collaboration to jointly develop a comprehensive measure to understand the multidimensional attainments and deprivations among children in India across health and nutrition, education, water and sanitation, household living standards and protective environment. The aim is to analyze the status of children around critical child related Sustainable … Read more
A study mentions that maintaining an optimal nurse-patient ratio and preventing burnout, is crucial to patient safety. By Dr. T Dileep Kumar and Dr. Bulbul Sood, As we celebrate World Patient Safety Day on September 17 with a vision of “a world in which no one is harmed in health care, and every patient receives … Read more
‘Analysis of causality of malnutrition reveals that food and status of health are the two immediate determinants.’ In the 2020 Global Hunger Index, India ranks 94th out of 107 countries. According to UNICEF’s data on India, nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 are attributable to undernutrition. Undernutrition puts children at greater risk … Read more
ROTAVAC 5D® is a miniaturized affordable rotavirus vaccine, delivering a potent product with a dose volume of 0.5ml. Bharat Biotech today announced that the World Health Organization (WHO) has awarded prequalification to its rotavirus vaccine, ROTAVAC 5D®. The new variant of ROTAVAC®, ROTAVAC 5D®, is a unique rotavirus vaccine formulation that can be administered without … Read more
Measles, tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (whooping cough) are four vaccine-preventable childhood diseases that immunisation programmes target. (Picture courtesy: IE) A whopping 30.38 million children are believed to have missed their first vaccine against diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus in 2020 against 14.03 million children in 2019, according to a new report. This implies an additional … Read more