This note was prepared by Laura Rawlings at the Human Development Network, World Bank, and Sheila Murthy and Natalia Winder at the Social Policy and Economic Analysis Unit, UNICEF. The authors would like to thank Iffath Sharif, Qaiser Khan, Cem Mete, Mattias Lundberg and Anush Bezhanyan at the World Bank, and Jeffrey O’Malley, Jennifer Yablonski, Gaspar Fajth, Mariana Stirbu, Roberto Benes, Qim...

Street children have been identified by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as children in difficult circumstances and their rights and welfare remains a growing concern to both national and international bodies.1 The existing estimates by UNICEF suggested that there are tens of millions of street-based children, and this number continues to rise in lowand middle-income countries becaus...

Through the study of two UNICEF-supported youth media initiatives from Palestine, this article theorizes and generates new empirical knowledge about the encounter between constructions of youth in rights-based discourses of UNICEF and young people’s digital media narratives. The research encountered instances where the universal discourse of children’s rights did not connect with the local real...

OBJECTIVES Guided by the UNICEF framework for childcare, this study examined the association of childcare practices (CCP) with infant and young children's growth (height-for-age Z-scores, HAZ), and investigated whether care practices are more important to growth in some sociodemographic subgroups of children. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Urban and rural Ghana. PARTICIPANTS The s...

1 Global Health Academy and Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 2 Croatian Centre for Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Soltanska, Split, Croatia, 3 Department of Health, Aging and Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 4 Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University,...

1 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 2 Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 The Nigerian Academy of Science, Lagos, Nigeria, 4 MRC Unit for Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 5 Futures Institute, New York, New York, United States of America, 6 UNICE...

Preliminary draft – not for quotation. The final version of the paper will be completed by January 1999 and will be published as a UNICEF-ICDC Innocenti Occasional Paper. An Appendix will include the data used to calculate the summary measures in the graphs, together with their sources. The paper forms one part of the UNICEF-ICDC project on “EMU and Children”; the other part of the project is t...

January 2009, Vol. 99, No. 1 SAMJ 2. Brewer DD, Potterat JJ, Roberts JM, jr., Brody S. Male and female circumcision associated with prevalent HIV infection in adolescents in Kenya, Lesotho, and Tanzania. Ann Epidemiol 2007; 17: 217-226. 3. UNICEF, African Child Policy Forum. What children and youth think, Botswana: a statistical presentation of opinions and perceptions of children and youth in ...

The title of this symposium, ‘Can nutrition intervention make a difference?’ raises the question of ‘make a difference to what?’, and raises the issue of how this difference can be measured and attributed to the intervention. The present paper focuses on the micronutrient interventions in which the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has been providing assistance for many years. It describe...

Malaria imposes great socio-economic burden on humanity and one of the highest killer diseases affecting most tropical countries. More than 2 billion people (40% of the world's population) live in areas where malaria is endemic. It was estimated that over 250 million people worldwide contracted malaria in 2002 (Doderer et al., 2007). According to the UNICEF, in every minute, malaria kills a chi...