While ‘long-Covid’ has come to mean lingering symptoms among survivors of Covid-19 infections, in Nepal it connotes the long-term socio-economic…
The Covid-19 worsened the disparities in young children’s development and learning in Nepal. One out of five Nepali children between the ages of…
The Nepali film A Scarecrow has won the UNICEF Iris 75 award at the UNICEF Innocenti Film Festival 2021 (UIFF) in Florence for its portrayal of…
Children and young people across the world could feel the impact of Covid-19 on their mental health for many years even after the worst effects…
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors Priyanka Chopra Jonas, David Beckham, Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Whoopi Goldberg, Angélique Kidjo, and Liam Neeson…
UNICEF has made an urgent appeal ahead of a G7 summit next month to ask developed countries to release some of their vaccine stockpiles to fight…
Just over a year of living with the pandemic, Nepalis were just starting to get back on their feet, their income and nutrition status was…
The Covid-19 infection rate in Nepal is much higher in younger age groups but most fatalities are of people in their sixties and above. However,…
The world recorded an all-time low under-five deaths in 2019, but the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in major disruptions to health services…
On Friday, it will be four months since Nepal closed the country down to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus strain that causes…
The European Union and UNICEF are collaborating to prevent malnutrition in Nepali children due to the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19…
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore who has just returned to New York after a visit to New Delhi and Kathmandu has said air pollution…
Mother's group in Accham feed home-cooked meal to their children. Photo: MARTY LOGANFor the first two decades after 1990, Nepal took great…
Polio eradication is one of the most ambitious public health initiatives undertaken in human history. Launched in 1988 by the World Health…
As a married, working woman with a child, it was impossible for Jasmine Bajracharya to take days off to care for her ailing parents. They needed…
Kul Chandra Gautam’s life is an inspirational story of how a school boy in one of the poorest and remotest districts in Nepal went on to become…
