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At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, USAID Administrator Samantha Power announced that the US Government wants to slash global lead poisoning.

Critically, the highly successful mother-led Mid-Upper Arm Circumference programme is being expanded while roving midwives will be deployed to hard-to-reach areas to improve nutrition status and overall wellbeing of the most disadvantaged children.

Maternal Mortality Rate Increases

As Nigeria’s National Population Commission prepares for a national census scheduled for May 2022 – the first since 2006 – The Conversati

Census is a huge scientific responsibility that requires a high level of preparedness, transparency and quality assurance.

Mother appeals to save her minor daughter from illegal marriage

Views: Visits 10 Non-profit organisation Connected Development had many sitting right up with this startling claim about mortality in Africa’s most populous country. Thankfully, it’s incorrect. To mark World Health Day in April 2021, Nigerian non-profit organisation Connected Development made an alarming claim about child mortality.“In commemoration of #WorldHealthDay2021, we are reminded that annually, Nigeria loses over 99% of children below the age of five due to dilap...

Guard against resurgence of polio, vaccinate your children, UNICEF warns On By Chioma Obinna The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has urged Nigerians to be on guard against the resurgence of polio in the country by ensuring that their children participate in the country’s routine immunisation.   After over three decades, Nigeria precisely on August 25, 2020, declared polio-free by the World Health Organisation, WHO following the struggle to end poliovirus in 1988 championed by glo...

BRIDGETOWN (CMC): The Barbados government has said there’s no child labour on the island even as a Multiple Indicator Cluster 2012 Survey conducted by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) points to 2.3 per cent incident rate on the island. In a statement, Labour and Social Partnership Relations Minister Colin Jordan explained that what the data showed was that a significant number of children were involved in household chores. “Let me make it absolutely clear that we have no concer...