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Young children are nearly three times more likely than adults to fall ill from unsafe food, according to new estimates released by the World Health Organization (WHO), which found that contaminated food causes around 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths globally each year. The findings, published ahead of World Food Safety Day on […]
The United Nations Children’s Fund, (UNICEF) has warned that more than 14 million infants globally did not receive a single vaccine last year, exposing them to life-threatening but preventable diseases, as it calls for urgent action during World Immunization Week. The agency made this known in a statement noting how declining global health funding and […]
On a humid afternoon, six-year-old Sola,(not her real name) sat curled in pain, clutching her jaw and unable to explain what hurts. Her grandmother, a wholesaler and distributor who made a living selling snacks and toiletries, watched helplessly as the little girl’s whimpers turned into sobs. Years earlier, Sola had been treated with sweets— sugar […]
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is sounding the alarm over a sharp global rise in measles cases, putting millions of children at risk, calling for urgent action to close vaccination gaps and prevent unnecessary deaths. UNICEF revealed that in the past five years alone, more than 100 countries— home to nearly three-quarters of the […]
