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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Biomarkers of environmental enteropathy are positively associated with immune responses to an oral cholera vaccine in Bangladeshi children
<p>Environmental enteropathy (EE) is a poorly understood condition that refers to chronic alterations in intestinal permeability, absorption, and inflammation, which mainly affects young children in resource-limited
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Tribal boy writes to PM Modi as Japanese Encephalitis toll mounts to 73 in Malkangiri
As 73 children died in the outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis at 505 villages in the tribal-dominated Malkangiri district in Odisha, a 10-year-old boy's letter to the Prime Minister fervently appealing
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Air pollution behind 10% under-5 years deaths: Unicef report
NEW DELHI: A report by the United Nations Children's agency, Unicef, released on Monday has confirmed the worst fears of people living in polluted areas — that bad air is contributing to death of many
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Inequalities in full immunization coverage: trends in low- and middle-income countries
<p>The objective of the study was to investigate disparities in full immunization coverage across and within 86 low- and middle-income countries.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/94/11/15-162172.pdf?ua=1"
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Measuring Haitian children's exposure to chikungunya, dengue and malaria
<p>The objective of the study was to differentiate exposure to the newly introduced chikungunya virus from exposure to endemic dengue virus and other pathogens in Haiti.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/94/11/16-173252.pdf?ua=1"
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Levels and trends in child malnutrition 2016
The UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank inter-agency team regularly updates joint global and regional estimates of child malnutrition. These estimates of prevalence and numbers for child stunting, overweight,
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Nutrition and economic development: exploring Egypt’s exceptionalism and the role of food subsidies
Egypt faces two nutritional challenges. The first is the “growth-nutrition disconnect.” High economic growth has not been accompanied by reduction in chronic child malnutrition, at least throughout the
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Results From South Africa’s 2016 Report Card on Physical Activity
There is growing recognition of the importance of physical activity (PA) in children and youth for the primary prevention of obesity and certain non-communicable diseases, later
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Children in north India breathing toxic air, reveals UNICEF report
As India wakes up on Monday to smoke-filled skies from a weekend of festival fireworks, New Delhi's worst season for air pollution begins, with dire consequences. A new report from UNICEF says most
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Clear the air for children: the impact of air pollution on children
<p>Almost one in seven of the world’s children, 300 million, live in areas with the most toxic levels of outdoor air pollution – six or more times higher than international guidelines – reveals this UNICEF report.</p>