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The first fight

Focus on issues affecting the cognitive development and health of young children affected by global poverty

31 July 2018

  • The challenges of tackling severe food insecurity in remote Papua New Guinea Hawaneme is from Mougulu, a remote village in Papua New Guinea’s Western Province and one of the areas most badly-affected by the drought. As she holds her granddaughter on her shoulders, she recounts how she has fainted from hunger several times. 3 février 2016. Hawaneme’s village, and many others like it in the country, are accessible only by foot or by air, making it very difficult to deliver much-needed food assistance. © WFP/Francesca Ciardi

    'Newborns were fed fish soup': Papua New Guinea's malnutrition crisis

    Undernutrition in under fives causes damage that has an impact throughout their lives – a legacy that is borne by nearly 50% of the nation’s children

22 June 2018

  • Joy plays in the nursery in Kibera, Nairobi.

    Support proves key for teachers and children alike in Kenya’s largest slum

    Efforts to improve the training and resources available to childminders in Nairobi’s Kibera settlement are bearing fruit – to the benefit of all concerned

27 May 2018

  • Veronic Blom

    Township trauma: the terrible cost of drinking during pregnancy

    More than a tenth of children in South Africa have foetal alcohol syndrome. Now volunteer mothers are fighting back

15 May 2018

  • Close-up of a girl standing in a doorway. Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 9 Dec 2012.

    Discrimination kills 230,000 girls under five in India each year, study shows

    Neglect to blame for skewed mortality rates, says Lancet report that urges looking beyond pre-natal sex selection at deaths from inequality of education and health

13 April 2018

  • Children play at a centre run by the Mumbai Mobile Creche organisation

    The Mumbai creche that means toddlers aren't left home alone

    Construction sites in India that provide daycare are allowing cash-strapped families to build their children a future

11 April 2018

  • Indian children make their way to school on the outskirts of Gauhati in Assam, north-east India.

    Spend more aid on early years education for a life of opportunity

    Sarah Brown
  • A child at school in Lebanon

    'Millions missing out': aid fails to make the grade on early years education

29 March 2018

  • Nazima Begum with her young son Ataur Rahman

    Young lives hang by a thread as past haunts Rohingya mothers

    After the trauma of fleeing violence in Myanmar, Nazima Begum is struggling to breastfeed her young son – a common problem among Rohingya mothers

21 March 2018

  • Indian children cool off on a hot day in Delhi

    Health is more important than wealth, child development study finds

    Report in the Lancet shows that children across the globe will hit the same milestones, as long as basic needs are met

16 March 2018

  • A child in Bankass, Mali, is tested for malaria by a community health worker

    How a poor community in Mali became a trailblazer for tracking child mortality

    Extraordinary success of programme under which health workers make house calls could save untold young lives in sub-Saharan Africa

9 March 2018

  • A father whose daughter was born with microcephaly in Recife

    'There are a lot of unknowns': British scientists set to work on Zika vaccine

    Research begins on £4.7m project with scientific community still puzzled by concentrated but intense spate of birth defects in Brazil

2 March 2018

  • Nurses tend to newborn babies at the maternity ward of a hospital in Guwahati, in the Indian state of Assam

    Mineral deficiency exposes 19 million babies a year to brain damage risk

    Scientists warn mineral deficiency leaves 14% of newborns vulnerable to impaired mental development

1 March 2018

  • A child has his arm measured at a clinic in Somalia

    Africa 'very, very far away' from meeting global target to end child malnutrition

    Research covering 51 countries in unprecedented detail suggests entire continent will miss 2030 deadline

26 February 2018

  • A mother and her baby wait outside a temporary community centre in the evening light in the Najar camp for displaced people in Galkayo

    Nativity on a knife-edge: the struggle for survival in Somalia – in pictures

    Newborns in Somalia are often delivered in dusty, makeshift shelters without medical help, exposing them to a high risk of infection – and even death

5 February 2018

  • Giovanna Maia with her mother, Germany

    'I don't live any more': Zika takes a heavy toll on families in Brazil

    Since contracting the Zika virus while pregnant, Inabela Tavares has struggled to raise a daughter facing severe developmental challenges

4 January 2018

  • A Rohingya refugee baby girl sleeps inside her family's temporary shelter at the Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh December 20, 2017. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

    Squalor and disease await Rohingya babies born in Bangladesh camps

    Newborns in danger of malnutrition and disease as huge influx of refugees from Myanmar puts pressure on basic services in Cox’s Bazar shelters

10 November 2017

  • Rohingya refugees wait to be seen by a doctor at a camp in Bangladesh’s Ukhia district

    Rohingya children close to starvation amid 'health crisis on an unimaginable scale'

    ‘Rampant malnutrition’ reported following Rohingya exodus from Myanmar to Bangladesh as agencies warn shocking new figures may be tip of the iceberg

3 November 2017

  • An eight-year-old HIV patient

    How HIV found its way to a remote corner of the Himalayas

    Like many men from the impoverished district of Accham, Sarpa migrated to India for work only to return home with HIV

23 October 2017

  • A mother holds a child at the Princess Marie Louise children’s hospital

    ‘My baby went to sleep and didn't wake up’: young lives lost to Ghana's silent killer

    Malnutrition prevents almost a fifth of children in Ghana from growing properly. The problem is particularly acute in Bentum, Apprah and Nyanyano, rural communities with scant medical facilities

3 October 2017

  • Shoppers queue at a Pick n Pay supermarket in Cape Town

    Supermarkets are creating an obesity crisis in African countries, experts warn

    Middle-class no longer eating what they grow, contributing to rising numbers of overweight people and creating a ‘double burden of malnutrition’, say researchers
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