Children and child welfare in the News
The articles listed below include news about children and child welfare issues from locations across the world. This is page 19 of 28.
Vigilance needed to ensure safe infant food
Healthcare watchdog calls for new drive to improve the system for delivering urgent and emergency care
The Healthcare Commission has called for improvements to the system for delivering urgent and emergency care in England. It has published a major review covering all urgent and emergency services, ...
UK Government announces action on water and sanitation
UNICEF UK joined the End Water Poverty coalition to call for more to improve access to sanitation. The coalition wants developing countries to be supported in developing national sanitation plans a...
UNICEF update on maternal mortality
Premature babies are not receiving care they deserve
Health workers have called premature babies in the UK to have the same rights to care that adults receive in intensive care units. Using their professional expertise they have come together today t...
UNICEF: More than 2.5 million evacuated in Cuba in the aftermath of two powerful hurricanes
UNICEF is airlifting 11.5 tons of emergency supplies to Haiti to help victims of hurricanes
South Africa launches its first Vitamin A supplementation campaign
South Africa has launched its first ever national Vitamin A campaign, which aims to reach a total of 4 million children over an intensive 12 day period ending on 20 September, 2008.
African countries to introduce new meningitis vaccine
The meningitis prevention and control strategy was reviewed and endorsed by WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization in April 2008 and by the GAVI Alliance Board in June 2008.
