Breastfeeding Revisited thanks to WHO and UNICEF
‘Good Health begins with mother.There is no substitute to her milk’// . Breast feeding has been revisited this week due to the efforts of WHO, UNICEF and breast feeding steering committees as a socially acceptable and respectable practice. As the ‘World Breastfeeding Week (Aug 1-7)’ comes to an end of weeklong campaign, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has made...Indian Olympic Association And UNICEF To Collaborate On HIV/AIDS Awareness
Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and UNICEF would collaborate on spreading awareness regarding the transmission and protection of HIV virus. The collaboration would help spreading awareness to young people the dangers of HIV infection//. The program would enhance national awareness through sports as children’s and young people are more attracted towards sports meet and events. A Memoran...WHO, UNICEF Issue New Guidelines For Oral Rehydration Salts
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF have announced a new formula for the preparation of Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) that is designed to minimize the occurrence of acute diarrhoeal disease.// The new formula will also help the health agencies achieve the target of reducing child mortality by two-thirds before 2015. Diarrhea is the second leading cause of child mortality and ki...UNICEF To Launch A Programme For Zimbabwe Children
The U.N. Children's Fund is planning on launching a program to improve the care, health, education and nutrition of vulnerable children in Zimbabwe//, where one child dies of AIDS and another is orphaned every 20 minutes. In a statement Wednesday, UNICEF Britain has acknowledged the scale of the Aids catastrophe threatening Zimbabwe's children and has given UNICEF £22 million to help t...UNICEF To Help For The Betterment Of Refugee Kids in Chhattisgarh
UNICEF has offered to help the children of refugees settled in the makeshift relief camps of the Maoist-hit Dantewada district in the restive eastern state of Chhattisgarh.// UNICEF will specifically look into the health and educational problems of thousands of children settled in these camps. According to official sources, UNICEF assistance came in when Cecilio Adrona, t...