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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF )COVID-19
UNICEF preparing 210-bed facility for Rohingyas
UNICEF said it is preparing a 210-bed Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Isolation and Treatment Centre after the first coronavirus cases were confirmed among the Rohingya population in Cox's Bazar, ...
25pc people don’t wash hands: Survey
The habit of hand washing has increased in Bangladesh, but over one-fourth of the country's population do not use soap, revealed a cluster survey of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) published in ...
UNICEF extends support to learn children from home
UNICEF has said it will significantly scale up support in all countries to help children continue their learning as large-scale school closures make face-to-face education in classrooms unavailable ...
‘20 per cent of the people still go to bed hungry’
The number of those going hungry has gone down considerably in Bangladesh and underweight rates have almost halved. Wasting rates are also almost half and the country was at a threshold. But there is ...
Sorrows of salinity at Dakope
Five-month-old Nazmul was crying continuously and his mother Monowara (30) was trying to calm him down. She said her baby boy had been suffering from diarrhoea for two days. Apart from breastfeeding, ...
Neonatal deaths increase for 3 reasons
The rate of neonatal deaths in Bangladesh has increased over the past few years. The main causes of these deaths are asphyxia, sepsis, infectious diseases, underweight and other preventable ...
Rabab Fatima of Bangladesh elected UNICEF executive board president
Ambassador Rabab Fatima, Bangladesh's Permanent Representative (PR) to the United Nations, has been unanimously elected president of the UNICEF executive board at elections held Tuesday at the UN ...
A train trip that set Shafikul on a new track of life
Back in 1989, seven-year-old Shafikul boarded a train compartment after school, mistakenly thinking it was an abandoned one. He had realised his mistake once the train started. It took him from ...
Over 19m Bangladesh children at front line of climate change disasters: UN
Over 19 million children, a quarter of them under 5, across Bangladesh are at the front line of climate change disasters, a UN report says mentioning that climate change threatens child nutrition in ...
One-in-three children undernourished or overweight: UNICEF
A third of the world's nearly 700 million children under five years old are undernourished or overweight and face lifelong health problems as a consequence, according to a grim UN assessment of ...
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