Khartoum - UNICEF (Sudan) has announced the arrival of more than two million doses of measles vaccines on Tuesday, due to the outbreak of the disease recently in different parts of the country.

MAHARASHTRA, 2010. In a village 130km (80 miles) from Mumbai, the head of a nursery is weighing a child. Four years old, she is just 10kg (22lb), two-thirds of what she should be.

ABOUT 2.3 million people now have access to better sources of drinking water since 1990 in rural areas of Nigeria, UNICEF has said.

Bangladesh celebrates the World Water Day today when 26 million of its citizens still have no access to safe drinking water.
The theme of the day is ‘Water and Sustainable Development.’

ISLAMABAD: More than 40 million people in Pakistan do not have access to a toilet, forcing them to defecate in the open, which in turn is a major contributor to stunting in the country, a top Unice

According to a recent toll had revealed that the scare was hitting Malawi's borders more especially Mozambique borders.

Pakistan has wasted $3.7 million (2.4 million pounds) worth of vaccines donated to protect children from deadly diseases because officials failed to store them properly, a senior health official to

KATHMANDU: The government has decided to conduct a technical review of the maternal mortality related data collected in the national census.

Tribal children of nine Scheduled V States including Odisha need to be given proper nutrition for their growth and development, opined experts attending a two-day long national-level conclave ‘Nour

KATHMANDU: Nepal has achieved remarkable progress on reducing early childhood mortality, improving public health and nutrition and immunization, preventing deaths from diarrhea, fever and acute res