Innocent Murula, a UNICEF-supported community outreach worker, works to raise community awareness about mpox in Kamanyola, South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on July 25, 2024. The ...

UNICEF and GSMA have launched the Africa Taskforce on Child Online Protection (COP), the first of its kind, to strengthen ...

In some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 10 percent of children die before they turn 5 years old (SN: 8/3/22); in 2022 alone, around 2.8 million young children died in the entire region. Most are ...

Through the Bokang Montjane Foundation, Bokang Montjane-Tshabalala has dedicated her time to assisting autistic children and ...

Nadia Adjoa Sam-Agudu receives funding from the US National Institutes of Health and the European Commission. Wolfgang Preiser does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

When research showed that routinely treating children in Sub-Saharan Africa with a common antibiotic could reduce deaths in children under five, the World Health Organization (WHO) moved quickly to ...

One in five children worldwide lived amid active warfare last year, as the number of minors in conflict zones climbed to ...

The mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and the hepatitis B virus remains a serious public health threat. Millions globally are living with HIV, with a significant proportion in Africa.