Tagged: child health

A bag of hope: bringing essential medicines to remote villages in DPR Korea

Health and nutrition

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For 9 years, Dr Ri Chol Ok has been trekking door to door to bring health care to the homes of families in a remote area of DPR Korea. “I cover 122 households, and in a single day I visit 20 to 30 families,” she explains. It’s not an easy job, she says, but thanks to a new bag provided by UNICEF, her work has become a little… Read more →←

21st Century Ger: Innovation experts set to reinvent traditional Mongolian homes

Children's rights

By Mungunkhishig Batbaatar

Ulaanbaatar – home to half of Mongolia’s three million population – has the most toxic air in the world during winter. The biggest source of air pollution comes from coal-burning stoves in the “ger district which makes up 60 percent of Ulaanbaatar’s population. “Ger” districts consist of self-built detached houses and… Read more →←

Community volunteers help tackle malnutrition in Rakhine, Myanmar

Health and nutrition

By Macarena Aguilar

Since violence escalated across Myanmar’s northern townships of Rakhine State in August last year and access to health and nutrition services dropped drastically, community volunteers have become a critical safeguard against the risk of malnutrition among children. With years of experience working for international non-government… Read more →←

Reaching the urban poor in East Asia and the Pacific

Health and nutrition

By Wang Xiaojun

Last year, UNICEF EAPRO’s health team visited an urban poor community in Pnom Penh. While we walked around a community living in small, temporary looking shacks, we met a small boy. He was delicately walking over fragile wooden planks, suspended a couple of metres above ground, in search of water. When I looked at him, tears fogged my… Read more →←

Learning to save more lives in DPR Korea

Health and nutrition

By Silas Rapold and Bakhodir Rahimov, UNICEF DPR Korea

At 6:30 every morning, Dr. Ri Song Hwan walks to the county hospital in Jongju City, DPR Korea, where he has worked for many years as a paediatrician. As he walks, many people greet him – he remembers each young patient and each member of his community by name. There is no limit to Dr. Ri’s work hours: a mother who has a sick child… Read more →←

Nutrition efforts to build brighter futures for mothers and babies in Cambodia

Health and nutrition

By Noémi de Verneuil, Arnaud Laillou

Ratanakiri and Phnom Penh, Cambodia – It is early morning in Ka Lay 2 village and 28-year-old Nanja arrives at the meeting point with her husband Niag and their three-month-old boy Syna. The baby, their third child, looks healthy and energetic and looks at everything around him. Nanja is here to do a follow-up on her health and that of… Read more →←

“Mr Beckham picked me!” – An experience of a lifetime in Papua New Guinea

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The memory of David Beckham’s visit to Kur Kur village in the Papua New Guinean highlands will stay with the villagers forever, especially for young Noah. He was plucked out of the crowd by David during a football match, and was even given the job of taking the match winning penalty. “I was really excited when Mr Beckham picked… Read more →←

Universal health care in China: making progress for women and children

Health and nutrition

By Kathryn Martin

When Chun Ni (not her real name) first became pregnant, she only had one antenatal check-up because her farm in Qinghai Province was far from the nearest township. She could not afford an ultrasound and, worried about hospital costs, stayed at home to deliver. Tragically, there were complications and without proper medical facilities the… Read more →←
Khaizer Jay Alagaban

The effects of an unregulated fast food industry on nutrition in Asia

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 We’ve all seen the impact of fast food on children’s weight and health in the UK and US. But now this man-made epidemic is spreading to Asia, where undernutrition is still rampant. Shockingly, in some countries there are equal numbers of children under five who are overweight and suffering from acute undernutrition. Urgent action… Read more →←

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