About 559 million children are currently exposed to high heatwave frequency according to new research from UNICEF. In addition, 624 million children are exposed to one of three other high heat measures high heatwave duration, high heatwave severity or extreme high temperatures. By 2050, virtually every child on earth or over 2 billion children are […]
About 44.3 percent of adolescents in Kenya have had a mental health problem while one in eight met criteria for a mental disorder in the past 12 months. This is according to National Adolescent Mental Health Survey published by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), University of Queensland and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School […]
Polisi nchini Nigeria wamemkamata mwanamke mwenye umri wa miaka 44 kwa tuhuma za wizi wa watoto 15 katika jimbo la kusini la Rivers. Polisi wanasema kwamba, watoto hao walitekwa nyara ili kuuzwa na mwanamke huyo , ambaye alidai kuwa yeye ni mtawa anayeendesha kituo cha watoto yatima. Watoto hao wanaripotiwa kuwa na umri wa kati […]
Wizara ya afya nchini humo imesema kwamba, idadi ya vifo vya watoto vilivyotokana na Ugonjwa huo vimeongezeka hadi karibia 700.
Of the estimated 38.4 million people living with HIV worldwide in 2021, 2.73 million were children aged 0–19. Each day in 2021, approximately 850 children became infected with HIV and approximately 301 children died from AIDS related causes, mostly because of inadequate access to HIV prevention, care and treatment services. In 2021, around 160,000 children […]
Kenya has been ranked third globally as having high incidences of teenage pregnancies. Data from demographic and health surveys shows that two out of 10 girls between the age of 15 and 19 years is pregnant or has a child already. This is devastating because some of these teenagers end up not achieving their career […]
Zaidi ya watoto milioni tatu wanahitaji msaada wa kibinadamu na wako katika hatari kubwa ya magonjwa yanayotokana na maji, kuzama na utapiamlo kutokana na mafuriko makubwa zaidi katika historia ya hivi majuzi ya Pakistan
Maafisa wa upelelezi katika Kaunti ya Kiambu wanachunguza kisa ambapo mwanafunzi wa kidato cha kwanza anadaiwa kuwaua ndugu zake watatu na binamu yake katika muda wa mwaka mmoja uliopita. Kulingana na KBC, Mtoto huyo alipokuwa katika kituo cha Polisi cha Kikuyu, alikiri kwa wapelelezi jinsi alivyowaua ndugu zake, mmoja akiwa na umri wa miezi 15, […]
A study conducted in 2021 and published last week in the Journal of Advances in Sports and Physical Education has revealed that three in every ten school-going children in Kakamega county are overweight. The study involved a sample size of four hundred children in twenty-four schools, both public and private. According to the findings of […]
While scrolling through Twitter two days ago, I came across a thread of a man revealing the lengths he went to realize that one little boy in the estate had no father figure in his life. It all started when the man judged the little boy as rowdy and chaotic based on how he was […]