A new report by UNICEF and WHO indicates that girls are nearly twice as likely as boys to bear the responsibility of fetching water for households and spend more time doing it each day, The report Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) 2000-2022: Special focus on gender shows that globally, 1.8 billion people […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new package of measures, the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED), to monitor the development of young children at population level up to three years of age. This, the organization says, will allow for a comprehensive assessment of the development of young children up to 36 months of […]
Recent statistics show that an estimated 13.4 million babies were born pre-term in 2020, with nearly 1 million dying from preterm complications.in addition, at least 152 million vulnerable babies were born too soon from 2010 to 2020 This is equivalent to around 1 in 10 babies born early worldwide according to a new report released […]
Healthy kids and teenagers will not receive Covid19 vaccine according to the World Health Organization. This they said is because this group is considered low priority. This decision was reached after vaccine experts revised global Covid-19 vaccination recommendations. The low priority group includes healthy children and adolescents who are aged 6 months to 17 years […]
The World Health Organization has recommended oral hygiene awareness and education to be promoted in schools, workplaces and other community settings. This it says will help reduce the burden of oral diseases, which affect individuals, health systems and economies everywhere. One in every two children aged five years suffers from tooth decay according to an […]
World Health Organization has called upon countries to invest and establish childhood cancer centres of excellence and care networks to promote early detection for better outcomes and survival of childhood cancers victims. According to the organization for a child living in a low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) the likelihood of surviving cancer is less than 30 […]
World Health Organization and other experts are calling for urgent clampdowns of formula milk industry’s exploitative marketing tactics which are riddled with misleading claims and political interference. They say these marketing strategies takes away the gains that breast milk offers to babies while at the same time seriously jeopardizes the health and rights of women […]
World Health Organization has raised alarm over killer cough syrups which as caused more than 300 children fatalities in three counters. The children mainly aged under 5 – in the Gambia, Indonesia and Uzbekistan died of acute kidney injury, This a third warning issued by WHO against the use of two types of cough syrups produced in […]
Vifo vya karibu watoto 100 nchini Indonesia vimesababisha nchi hiyo kusimamisha uuzaji wa dawa zote za sharubati. Ni wiki chache tu baada ya dawa ya kikohozi nchini Gambia kuhusishwa na vifo vya karibia watoto 70. Indonesia imesema kwamba, baadhi ya dawa za sharubati zimepatikana kuwa na viambato vinavyohusishwa na majeraha ya figo (AKI), ambayo yameua […]
Shirika la Afya Duniani (WHO) limetoa tahadhari hapo Jumatano kuhusu dawa nne za kikohozi na baridi zilizotengenezwa na Maiden Pharmaceuticals nchini India, na kuonya kuwa zinaweza kuhusishwa na vifo vya watoto 66 nchini Gambia. Shirika la afya la Umoja wa Mataifa pia limetahadharisha kwamba dawa zilizoambukizwa huenda zilisambazwa nje ya nchi hiyo ya Afrika Magharibi, […]