A new report by the National Immunisation Coverage Survey (NICS) in collaboration with UNICEF,& Read more »
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has approved new child-friendly formulations of several important antiretroviral medicines, Thabo Molelekw Read more »
Human rights watchdogs have called for the immediate and unconditional release of eSwatini members of parliament Mduduzi Bacede Mabuza and Mthandeni Dube. The two were detain Read more »
For a significant part of her life, Hauwa Ojeifo struggled with extreme mood and energy swings, which, coupled with trauma from sexual and emotional abuse, severely interfered with ... Read more »
Girls as young as twelve years old are being forced into child marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) at "alarming rates" in the Horn of Africa, as the most severe drought in ... Read more »
The United Nation Children's Fund says more than 266,000 violations were committed against children in armed conflict between 2005 and 2020. An analysis of more than 30 conflicts ... Read more »
There's a widespread customary belief that having an increasing number of children results in tooth loss. "Gain a child, lose a tooth", or "for every child, a tooth is lost" ... Read more »
A shocking new UN report has indicated that the number of crisis-impacted school-aged children requiring educational support has grown from an estimated 75 million in 2016, t Read more »
The 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) has kicked off in Kigali. The meeting, which was initially due to take place in 2020 before it was postp Read more »
Conflict, violence, and other crises left a record 36.5 million children displaced from their homes by the end of last year, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates - the h Read more »
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