On a roadside in Central Uganda, a woman selling charcoal says she barely earns enough to buy food for herself and her eight children. She is determined for her children to go to school and says she ...

The consumption of milk products, eggs and fish has a positive effect on childhood development in Africa. This has been demonstrated in a recent study. The researchers used representative data from ...

Between 2023 and 2025, the Big Catch-Up (BCU) delivered more than 100 million doses of life-saving vaccines to children in ...

Children’s health and development depend on how much time they spend doing physical activity, being sedentary and sleeping. Research on movement behaviours in children is essential. It helps us to ...

I recently traveled with UNICEF USA partners on a program visit to South Africa. With 45 percent of the population under age 24, South Africa is a land of rich diversity, dynamic growth and complex ...

A woman in the Democratic Republic of Congo holds her one-year-old son infected with mpox. EPA-EFE/Michel Lunanga An epidemic of mpox in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is spreading ...

In this open-label trial with a 2-by-4 factorial design, we randomly assigned children with HIV who had first-line treatment failure to receive second-line therapy with tenofovir alafenamide fumarate ...

Actress Mischa Barton has returned from a trip to South Africa to promote the work of Save The Children. The O.C. star described the visit as a "life-changing experience", adding that she was pleased ...

18 December is International Migrants Day. To mark this day, we honour the contributions of migrants throughout the Eastern and Southern Africa region and make a call to action for their rights to be ...