Reflections from a recent visit to South Africa, where UNICEF works to safeguard the lives and futures of children.

Global efforts to protect children against diseases like measles, polio and tuberculosis have stalled since 2010, leaving ...

In The Gambia, a small country in West Africa, 1 in 10 newborns have a low birth weight — less than 5.5 pounds — and face daunting challenges.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes severe illness in millions of young children each year.1 Globally, it is estimated that over 100 000 children younger than 5 years die each year from RSV; 97% ...

The Day of the African Child is celebrated to commemorate these children and the brave action they took to defend their ...

Children raised by parents who are educated, married, not isolated and not addicted will be significantly less likely to be ...

Oil prices jumped on Monday to their highest since January as the United States' weekend move to join Israel in attacking ...

Scientists and researchers working in global health have called for the restoration of the Demographic and Health Surveys ...

Roads in parts of rural Uganda can be rough in dry weather and a churn of mud in wet LIRA, Uganda — The bicycle parked in ...

He also noted that 40 per cent of children in sub-Saharan Africa face major health deficits that impact their development and productivity. "Fixing a child's nutrition at age five or six is too ...

Health-funding cuts are wreaking havoc on many African countries’ ability to gain control diseases such as cholera, according ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says four out of ten children globally will reside in Africa by 2050. It said the significant shift presented an unparalleled opportunity, demanding renewed ...