‘We can be the generation who ends AIDS in children’
A new global health alliance hopes to fix a ‘glaring disparity’ in the treatment of AIDS by ensuring no child living with HIV is denied treatment.Read more
Children are dying needlessly on the roads – let’s work together to end these tragedies
Road traffic is the leading killer of children and young people worldwide – a sobering fact that will be at the forefront of a major United Nations event starting today.Read more
School zone transformations worldwide to increase safety of child pedestrians
Protecting child road users is the aim of an ambitious plan to introduce safer school zones in cities across the globe.Read more
UN agencies back radical plan to ensure every child can get a healthy meal in school by 2030
United Nations agencies are behind an international coalition aimed at rapidly improving the nutrition, health and education of school-age children around the world following pandemic-driven school closures.Read more
Road Safety: ‘Right to safe mobility puts people at heart of global plan’
The newly-launched Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 is a major milestone in the continued effort to halve road deaths and injuries – many of which involve children – within...Read more
Historic day as first Malaria vaccine is approved
A groundbreaking vaccine against Malaria that could save countless numbers of children’s lives in Africa has been approved by the World Health Organization (WHO).Read more
New WHO global air quality guidelines will protect millions of children
The World Health Organization says its new Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) provide clear evidence of the damage air pollution inflicts on human health – and that means potentially million of children – at even...Read more
Building stronger connections between schools and communities in Melbourne
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to close in 2020, the staff at Doveton College in Melbourne picked up the phone.Read more
UNICEF & WHO: ‘Keep schools in Europe and Central Asia open and protect from COVID’
Children’s charity UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) say measures must be introduced to help keep European and Asian schools open by being better protected from the highly-infectious Delta variant of COVID-19. Read more
‘Physical activity is critical for children’s quality of life’
One thing that most families learn at some point – particularly during lockdown – is that balancing a child’s screen time with physical activity isn’t an easy task.Read more
‘Urgent action’ needed to increase children’s access to HIV prevention and treatments
The final report from the Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free initiative warns that progress towards ending AIDS among children, adolescents and young women has stalled and none of the targets for 2020 were met.Read more
Pandemic caused ‘major backsliding’ on childhood vaccinations in 2020
Around 23 million children did not receive routine vaccinations in 2020, which was 3.7 million more than the previous year, according to official figures by the World Health Organization and UNICEF.Read more
Global project to help youngsters support each another during emergencies
The World Health Organization (WHO) is part of a new programme aimed at giving children and teenagers the skills and knowledge needed to support their friends during traumatic events.Read more
Promoting health in schools: Old ideas, new opportunities
The idea of health-promoting schools is not new. Defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), these are schools that are “constantly strengthening their capacity as a healthy setting for living, learning and working” for all...Read more