At least five children with cholera in South Sudan have died on an arduous journey to seek medical treatment, after aid cuts forced their local health services to close in the middle of a major outbreak of the deadly disease, Save the Children said.
New low-cost tools that measure newborn babies' feet to screen for prematurity or low birth weight are under trial in Ethiopia in an initiative to help tackle the leading cause of death among young children, particularly those born at home.
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World leaders convene on 22-23 September for the 2024 Summit of the Future in New York to accelerate action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other global challenges. Children from rural and poor families are increasingly being left behind in global development according to a new report by Save the Children.
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Cases of the potentially deadly mpox virus have skyrocketed about 75-fold in children and young people under the age of 19 in the most severely impacted province in the Democratic Republic of Congo so far this year, Save the Children said.
Children in rural communities across the U.S. are struggling from inconsistent access to enough food for a healthy, active lifestyle.
Save the Children targets the major causes of maternal, newborn and child deaths, and we provide health programs to save children’s lives.
Today, and every day across the globe, roughly 16,000 children under 5 years old will die from common illnesses that can be prevented and treated.
Mondelēz and Save the Children partner to provide healthy lifestyle programs and to strengthen the productive capacity of cocoa farmers.
Save the Children's Health and Nutrition programs seeks to facilitate and promote sustained improvements in health status, with special attention given to the needs of women and children, and especially poor and marginalized populations.
Learn what causes malnutrition in children. Critical shortages of lifesaving, ready-to-use therapeutic food threaten the survival of millions of children suffering from acute malnutrition.
