English

Acute child malnutrition increases by 5%

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun28 10
DAKAR - Nearly 17 percent of Niger’s children younger than five suffer acute malnutrition, a 5 percent increase over the ...
English

Poor health services hamper PMTCT progress

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun28 10
MBABANE - Swaziland has made remarkable progress in reducing HIV transmission from infected mothers to their babies, but health activists ...
English

Measles back with a vengeance

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun28 10
JOHANNESBURG - "Out of sight, out of mind" explains why Southern Africa has been grappling with one of the biggest ...
English

No one believed he was abused

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun24 10
KAKUMA - Ahmed Mohamoud seems like a typical eight-year old boy. He is dressed in jeans and sneakers and ...
English

Surviving on a crust in Cairo’s expanding slums

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun23 10
CAIRO - For seven-year-old Ahmed Yasser, it is normal to have just a crust of bread to munch on ...
English

The long road home for talibés

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun22 10
GABU - Each year a minority of Koranic students, or talibés, put under the care of a religious leader who ...
English

Kakuma camp cuts child malnutrition

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun22 10
NAIROBI - Aid workers in a camp for some 80,000 refugees in northwest Kenya have in six months slashed ...
English

Disabled children in Somaliland must come first

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun17 10
HARGESIA - Children with disabilities in the self-declared republic of Somaliland are a forgotten lot, often not factored into ...
English

Vitamin A handouts boost polio vaccine acceptance

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun14 10
MAIDUGURI - Campaigns to distribute Vitamin A supplements to reduce high rates of child mortality and morbidity in northern ...
English

World Cup poses risks for out-of-school kids

by IRIN | 0 » | Jun11 10
As South African children look forward to a mid-year school holiday that will last longer than the usual winter ...

Recent Posts


Ads


Archives