In 2000, the Millennium Development Goals pledged to halt and to begin to reverse the incidence of malaria by 2015.

UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the World Bank Group today released updated estimates on child malnutrition, including stunting, wasting and excessive weight.

United Nations agencies, UNICEF, WHO as well as the Washington-based World Bank have said Mozambique is part of a group of ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa that have achieved half of the targets

To enhance community-based initiatives in educating mothers and caregivers on nutrition issues, the West Bengal government is observing National Nutrition Week till next Monday.

President Yahya Jammeh has made a declaration that The Gambia would be "open defecation-free" by 2017.

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), on Thursday, expressed worry that despite the huge natural resources that Nigeria is blessed with, it still loses no fewer than 500,000 infants to malnutr

Concerted efforts are on in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to bring ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) in the government policy after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s homestate, Gujarat, initiat

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday that 1.8 million children in Yemen are likely to suffer from malnutrition by the end of this year.

THE United Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Yobe State Government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on how to improve the state's water supply and sanitation schemes, including the develo

Three million Sudanese children under the age of five are suffering from severe malnutrition, according to the UN Children’s Agency (UNICEF).In its weekly bulletin seen by APA on Sunday, UNICEF sai

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