A new research shows that giving Vitamin A supplements to children under the age of five in developing countries could save 600,000 lives a year. The work published in the British Medical Journal was conducted by a team of UK and Pakistani researchers. The group evaluated up to 200,000 children in 43 studies and found… Continue reading Vitamin A Could Save Children in Developing Countries
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Children in Cameroon Learn to Fight Cholera
UNICEF MAROUA, Cameroon, 18 October 2010 – In the packed playground of Harde Primary School in Cameroon’s Extreme North province, six teams of local school children sit at desks in a semi-circle. “Write down the main symptoms of cholera,” a teacher instructs into a microphone, her words crackling over the buzz of hundreds of school… Continue reading Children in Cameroon Learn to Fight Cholera