Without immediate action, an estimated one million children in Afghanistan are projected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition in 2021 and could die, a top UNICEF official said after wrapping up a trip to the country, reported local media.
The United Nations children's fund (UNICEF) on Sunday urged the Taliban's caretaker government to resume children's vaccination amid fear of spreading polio and measles in war-affected Afghanistan.
Greater adoption of mobile payment innovations should be at the heart of preventive and curative interventions aimed at reducing Africa's burden of infectious diseases, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said on Friday.
A polio outbreak in the Philippines has ended, according to the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children’s Fund, which praised government efforts to fight the disease despite the coronavirus pandemic