Rotavirus: India unveils cheap Rotavac diarrhoea vaccine
Scientists in India have unveiled a new low-cost vaccine against a deadly virus that kills about half a million children around the world each year. Rotavirus causes dehydration and severe diarrhoea and spreads through contaminated hands and surfaces and is rampant in Asia and Africa. India says clinical trials show the new vaccine, Rotavac, [...]
More than 215 million children worldwide are forced to work in order to survive. This year’s international day against child labour is focusing on their plight. The sitatuation is particularly bad in Burkina Faso. At a tender age of nine, Zenabou Iiboudou started to work as a domestic servant in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou. For [...]
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(CNN) – If Barack Obama could make three wishes, he would probably ask for the crisis in Syria to go away. That would help him receive another wish: Getting reelected as president of the United States. Unfortunately for Obama, and tragically for the people in Syria, history has brought the American presidential campaign and the Syrian revolution to [...]
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Two million of the world’s poorest children could be saved by introducing routine vaccination programmes against diarrhoea and pneumonia, says Unicef. It says focusing on these diseases would narrow the survival gap between the richest and poorest children. Pneumonia and diarrhoea account for one-third of all global deaths among children under five. Unicef’s report, in [...]
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Those forced to flea their lands to escape persecution and death are under a lot of pressure – even upon arrival in a secure country. Child refugees find it particularly difficult. Those arriving in a new country where they don’t speak the language and the culture is new and unfamiliar, are obviously going to find [...]
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The German government has approved the introduction of new benefits for parents. The plans are going ahead after months of bitter wrangling in Chancellor Merkel’s coalition government. Parents in Germany who opt to care for very young children at home rather than sending them to a state-sponsored nursery will receive 100 euros ($125) a month [...]
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