For babies and young children, breathing particulate air pollution is extremely harmful to their health and development, as it can cause permanent damage to brain tissue and lungs. UNICEF warns that ...

Innocent Murula, a UNICEF-supported community outreach worker, works to raise community awareness about mpox in Kamanyola, South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on July 25, 2024. The ...

A report by the U.N. children's agency UNICEF says 181 million children younger than 5 live in severe food poverty. That's about 27% of the world’s youngest children. Africa’s population of more than ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An estimated 700,000 children receive HIV treatment each year through PEPFAR. The State Department issued a ...

A child is vaccinated against malaria on September 13, 2019 in Ndhiwa, Homabaya County, Western Kenya during the launch of testing of a malaria vaccine in Kenya. The vaccine - Mosquirix - is the world ...

Nadia Adjoa Sam-Agudu receives funding from the US National Institutes of Health and the European Commission. Wolfgang Preiser does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

The consumption of milk products, eggs and fish has a positive effect on childhood development in Africa. This has been demonstrated in a recent study. The researchers used representative data from ...

Africa is the second-largest continent in the world and the most multilingual. According to the African Language Program at Harvard, there are between 1000 and 2000 languages spoken on the continent, ...

Graeme Hoddinott is a fellow of the African Research Initiative for Scientific Excellence (ARISE) programme. His ARISE research is focused on optimising care for adolescents with tuberculosis. The ...