Making Every School a Health-Promoting School
UNESCO and the World Health Organization (WHO) have launched the Global Standards for Health-promoting Schools, a resource package for schools to improve the health and well-being of 1.9 billion school-aged children and adolescents. The closure of many schools around the…
New WHO Checklist Supports Schools Reopening Amid Covid Crisis
The checklist aims to help improve adherence to existing Covid-19-related public health and social measures designed to protect children. A new WHO checklist to support schools reopening and preparation for Covid-19 resurgences or similar public health crises, lists 38 essential…
New Guidance: 10 Steps to Successful Breastfeeding
WHO and UNICEF issued Wednesday new ten-step guidance to increase support for breastfeeding in health facilities that provide maternity and newborn services. Breastfeeding all babies for the first 2 years would save the lives of more than 820 000 children…
Laws to Protect Breastfeeding Inadequate: Report
A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) reveals the status of national laws to protect and promote breastfeeding. Of the 194 countries analysed in the report, 135 have in…
How to Reverse Alarming Rise in Childhood Obesity
Facing a global epidemic in childhood obesity with the number of overweight children under five on track to jump from 42 million to 70 million over the next decade, a United Nations report has called on governments to reverse the…
World Breastfeeding Week: 1–7 August 2015
World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from 1 to 7 August in more than 170 countries to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world. It commemorates the Innocenti Declaration signed in August 1990 by government…
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