Children's health
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Influencers, misinformation and aid cuts: the fight to halt polio in Malawi
A huge vaccination drive has been launched after the country’s first outbreak in years of the paralysing disea…
- Children, Children's health, Global development, Global health, Health, Islam, Pakistan, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
Pakistani breast milk bank closes after Islamic clerics withdraw approval
Doctors deplore decision and point to country’s high neonatal mortality rate as bank, which opened in June, fo…
- Asia Pacific, Children, Children's health, China, Coronavirus, Flu, Infectious diseases, Science, World Health Organization, World news
China supplies data to WHO about clusters of respiratory illness
Epidemiologists say wave in north, particularly among children, may be partly caused by ‘immunity debt’Chinese…
- Air pollution, Children's health, Delhi, Environment, Global development, Global health, India, Pollution, South and Central Asia
‘The complete murder of our young’: India counts cost of another polluting Diwali on a generation of children
One in three children in Delhi is already asthmatic, with many more at risk of organ damage from breathing nox…
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Captain of Thai cave football team took his own life at UK school, coroner rules
Inquest finds death of Duangphet Phromthep, 17, could not have been foreseen or preventedThe captain of the Th…
- Children's health, Children's rights, Climate crisis, Environment, India, Pollution, South Africa, South and Central Asia, UK news, World news
‘Put kids first’: India’s Warrior Moms fight for clean air at Cop27
Indian campaigners join global delegation representing one billion children affected by climate crisis• Cop27 …
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India must act on drug adulteration – lives around the world are at stake
Disregard for manufacturing standards could ruin the country’s reputation as the ‘developing world’s pharmacy’…
- Asia Pacific, Children's health, Coronavirus, Hong Kong, Medical research, Science, Society, World news
Covid restrictions and screens linked to myopia in children, study shows
Hong Kong research suggests less time outdoors and more doing ‘near work’ accelerates short-sightednessCoronav…
- Asia Pacific, Brazil, Children's health, Coronavirus, Health, India, Indonesia, Infectious diseases, South and Central Asia
Children with Covid: why are some countries seeing more cases – and deaths?
The perceived wisdom has been that children do not suffer severely from the virus. Yet they are now in Brazil,…
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What price a child’s life? India’s quest to make rare disease drugs affordable
Parents whose only hope was finding foreign sponsorship or a clinical trial are now looking for homegrown brea…