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Nepal’s ‘long-Covid’ impact on children

While ‘long-Covid’ has come to mean lingering symptoms among survivors of Covid-19 infections, in Nepal it connotes the long-term socio-economic impact of...

Covid derails child development in Nepal

The Covid-19 worsened the disparities in young children’s development and learning in Nepal. One out of five Nepali children between the ages...

Nepali film wins Unicef award

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...

The other pandemic: mental health

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...

Hollywood call for urgent vaccine supply

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors Priyanka Chopra Jonas, David Beckham, Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Whoopi Goldberg, Angélique Kidjo, and Liam Neeson have joined a...

UNICEF urges G7 to dispatch vaccines

UNICEF has made an urgent appeal ahead of a G7 summit next month to ask developed countries to release some of their...

UNICEF urges G7 to dispatch vaccines

UNICEF has made an urgent appeal ahead of a G7 summit next month to ask developed countries to release some of their...

New Nepal lockdown may cancel gains

Just over a year of living with the pandemic, Nepalis were just starting to get back on their feet, their income and nutrition...

The lost ‘Covid Generation’

The Covid-19 infection rate in Nepal is much higher in younger age groups but most fatalities are of people in their sixties...

Covid-19 to reverse child survival gains

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...