TOKYO, Feb 7, 2023 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), NEC Corporation (NEC) and Nagasaki University, Japan, have developed a digital biometric-based vaccination management system for newborn children in Kenya. Validation of this system is taking place through KEMRI with a clinical trial that began in September 2022 at the […]
In this photo taken on July 30, 2022, children take refuge at a Catholic school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after escaping gang violence in the Cité Soleil area. More than 300 Haitian children try to forget, at least for a time, the gang violence that forced them to flee their homes. (PHOTO / AFP) UNITED NATIONS […]
In this file photograph dated Aug 26, 2021, unaccompanied Guatemalan children who were deported by plane from Mexico arrive at La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City. (PHOTO / AP) MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities on Thursday stopped a crowded truck transporting nearly 70 migrants from Guatemala, mostly unaccompanied children, the country's National Institute of […]
Burkina Faso army officers patrol near a French armored vehicle parked in Kaya, capital of Burkina Faso's north-central region on Nov 20, 2021. (OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) OUAGADOUGOU – Sixty-six women and children kidnapped by armed assailants in northern Burkina Faso last week have been freed, national broadcaster Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (RTP) said […]
A Somali woman and children carry water at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Sept 20, 2022. (JEROME DELAY / AP) NAIROBI – The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Monday launched a $1 billion emergency funding appeal to reach millions of children in the Horn of Africa region in […]
People protest against Finnish government's regulations to fight the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Helsinki, Finland March 20, 2021. (LEHTIKUVA / ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO VIA REUTERS) HELSINKI / MOSCOW – The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) has updated its recommendations on the use of COVID-19 vaccines for children younger than 12 years. According to […]
Syringes with children's doses of Comirnaty, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 are seen at a practice of a children's doctor in Bonn, Germany, Dec 15, 2021. (WOLFGANG RATTAY / REUTERS) FRANKFURT / MOSCOW / LONDON – Germany's vaccine advisory panel on Thursday recommended that Pfizer-BioNTech's, COVID-19 vaccine for children from six months to four years […]
A woman holds a malnourished child at the nutrition unit of the Kelafo Health Center in the town of Kelafo, 120 kilometers from the city of Gode, Ethiopia, on April 7, 2022. (EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) ADDIS ABABA – The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Saturday called the donor community for funding to provide […]
A woman holds a malnourished child at the nutrition unit of the Kelafo Health Center in the town of Kelafo, 120 kilometers from the city of Gode, Ethiopia, on April 7, 2022. (EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) ADDIS ABABA – The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Saturday called the donor community for funding to provide […]
Children play in the water of a fountain, as the air temperature exceed 42 degrees Celsius, in Nantes, France on July 18, 2022. (LOIC VENANCE / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – Hot weather has become a health risk for many nations, but new data shows that almost every child on earth will be affected by heatwaves […]
People gather during a rally decrying rising gun violence while urging politicians to take action in Washington, D.C., the United States, June 11, 2022. (XIAO XIAO/XINHUA) NEW YORK – Each day, 28 US children and teens, the equivalent of a high school classroom, die from gun violence, making it the No. 1 killer of youth […]
Pupils pose at a window of their school in Douala, western Cameroon, on Jan 13, 2022. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and his special envoy for global education, Gordon Brown, on Saturday launched a multi-billion-dollar International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd). With the first projects expected in 2023, IFFEd […]
This photo shows the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, on Feb 7, 2019. (FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP) PARIS – The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday ruled that France must re-examine repatriation requests from two French women who traveled to Syria with their partners to join Islamic State, and the […]
Somali children displaced by drought and showing symptoms of Kwashiorkor, a severe protein malnutrition causing swelling and skin lesions, sit with their mothers at a malnutrition stabilization center in Mogadishu, Somalia, June 5, 2022. (FARAH ABDI WARSAMEH / AP) GENEVA – The number of young children in Somalia facing severe acute malnutrition has increased to […]
Somali children who fled drought-stricken areas stand by their makeshift shelters at a camp for the displaced on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia on Sept 3, 2022. (FARAH ABDI WARSAMEH / AP) GENEVA/MOGADISHU – Hundreds of children have died in nutrition centers across Somalia, the UN children's agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, a day after […]
A health worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at a vaccination center in Santiago on Jan 20, 2022. (JAVIER TORRES / AFP) MEXICO CITY / TUNIS / BERLIN /PRAGUE – The COVID-19 vaccine from BioNTech and Pfizer provides 73.2 percent protection for young children aged six months to four years, according to […]
In this file photo dated on June 30, 2022, Somalis who fled drought-stricken areas carry their belongings as they arrive at a makeshift camp for the displaced on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia. (FARAH ABDI WARSAMEH / AP) UNITED NATIONS – Children in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel could die in devastating numbers […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres holds a joint press conference with the Turkish National Defense Minister at the Joint Coordination Center established in Istanbul for the safe shipment of grain products from the Black Sea region in Istanbul on Aug 20, 2022. (YASIN AKGUL / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday appointed […]
HONG KONG, Aug 3, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Zhaoke Ophthalmology Limited (“Zhaoke Ophthalmology” or “the Company”, SEHK: 6622), a leading ophthalmic pharmaceutical company dedicated to the research and development, manufacturing and commercialization of treatments that address significant unmet medical needs, is excited to announce that the patient enrollments for the two-year Phase […]
People listen to Pope Francis issue a historic apology for the Catholic Church's cooperation with Canada's "catastrophic" policy of Indigenous residential schools in Maskwacis, near Edmonton, Canada on July 25, 2022. (TED SHAFFREY / AP PHOTO) MASKWACIS – Pope Francis apologized on Monday to Canada's native people on their land for the Church's role in […]