Covid undermines Nepal's mother-child gains
Despite periods of political and economic instability, Nepal achieved dramatic progress in maternal and child health in the early 2000s becoming an...
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Hunger for governance
Nepal has had one emergency heaped on top of another for more than a year now. The Covid-19 emergency, wildfires, and now floods.Political flux in...
COVID-19 leaves millions of South Asian children hungry
Children are collateral damage in the flight against the COVID-19 pandemic: some 4 million of them in South Asia under the age of five...
Mixed picture for Nepal’s children
Nepal has made progress in most areas related to children, like health, education, street children welfare, but challenges remain in nutrition, child...
Nearly half of Nepali children still malnourished
For the first two decades after 1990, Nepal took great strides in reducing malnutrition. But progress has stalled.Nepal registered one of the...
Junk food is making Nepali children shorter
The publication of a paper last week in The Journal of Nutrition that infants in Kathmandu were getting 25% of their calories...
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