WHO: A new guide on developing national programmes for age-friendly cities & communities
A new guide by the World Health Organisation (WHO) highlights how children’s interests can be successfully incorporated within ‘age friendly cities and communities’.Read more
Global coalition recognises Mexico City’s work on streets around schools
Mexico City’s efforts to improve the design and management of routes to and from school for children have been recognised at the inaugural Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit.Read more
WHO: Community-led approach promotes physical activity among children in Reykjavik
Living in urban environments can pose a variety of health-related challenges. Limited opportunities to keep active, alcohol and other substance abuse, and social and financial inequity all contribute to unhealthy lifestyles, and some of these...Read more
‘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