Dietary guidelines for India 2024
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recently revised the dietary guidelines for Indians to provide healthier diet and lifestyle recommendations, ensuring dietary and nutritional requirements
Child Health
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Childcare in a global crisis: the impact of COVID-19 on work and family life
<p>The COVID-19 crisis that has engulfed the world during 2020 challenges children’s education, care and well-being. Many parents struggle to balance their responsibilities for childcare and paid
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Accelerating progress on nutrition In India: what will it take- third progress report
POSHAN Abhiyaan, or National Nutrition Mission, is the Government of India’s flagship program to improve nutritional outcomes for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers. Launched in 2018, it strives
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Food Security And Nutrition Building A Global Narrative Towards 2030
<p>The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) is the science policy interface of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), which is, at the global level, the foremost inclusive
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Lives Upended: How COVID-19 threatens the futures of 600 million South Asian children
<p>The South Asian region is likely to have around 360 million children pushed into poverty and food insecurity within the next six months, according to a UNICEF report released on June 23, 2020. Over
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Global status report on preventing violence against children 2020
<p>Globally, an estimated one out of two children aged 2–17 years old suffer some form of violence each year. Over their lifetime, children exposed to violence are at increased risk of mental and
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COVID-19 Impacts on African Children- How to Protect-a-generation at Risk
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented with the virus spreading in almost all countries in the world. In Africa, 54 out of 55 countries have reported at least one COVID-19 infection. Luckily for Africa,
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Amidst Covid-19 pandemic, ECHO and UNICEF teamed up to ensure continuity of life-saving care for malnourished children in Niger
<p>– UNICEF receives additional US$ 2.6 million funding support from the EU Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) to ensure that children suffering from severe acute malnutrition receive quality care and treatment
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Lack of vertical transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2, China
<p>A woman with 2019 novel coronavirus disease in her 35th week of pregnancy delivered an infant by cesarean section in a negative-pressure operating room. The infant was negative for severe acute respiratory
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International donors meet as humanitarian agencies sound the alarm on Yemen and call for urgent funding
<p>International donors are coming together today, convened by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Nations, to raise needed funds for the life-saving humanitarian response in Yemen. More than 130
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For every child, reimagine: UNICEF Annual Report, 2019
<p>In 2019, the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF and partners worked side by side with children and young people to overcome the obstacles that keep far too many children