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Nepal’s ‘long-Covid’ impact on children
Photo: UNICEF NEPALWhile ‘long-Covid’ has come to mean lingering symptoms among survivors of Covid-19 infections, in Nepal it connotes the…
Covid derails child development in Nepal
Photo: SAGLO SAMAJ/HIMALMEDIAThe Covid-19 worsened the disparities in young children’s development and learning in Nepal. One out of five Nepali…
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 effects…
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…
UNICEF urges G7 to dispatch vaccines
All photos: UNICEF NEPALUNICEF 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
All photos: UNICEF NEPALUNICEF 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
Photo: UNICEF NEPALJust over a year of living with the pandemic, Nepalis were just starting to get back on their feet, their income and…
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 and above. However,…
Covid-19 to reverse child survival gains
Photo: OM ASTHA RAI/NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEThe world recorded an all-time low under-five deaths in 2019, but the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in…
Children are collateral damage in Nepal lockdown
Photo: GOPEN RAIOn Friday, it will be four months since Nepal closed the country down to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus strain that…
EU, UNICEF support child nutrition during lockdown
A mother in Kalikot District measures arm of her child using a MUAC tape after receiving a short orientation on family MUAC NTThe European Union…
Pollution bad for children: UNICEF
Plume of pollution headed our way from Northern India seen in this NASA satellite image taken this week. Smoke is mostly from stubble…
Nearly half of Nepali children still malnourished
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 hunt
Photo: UNICEFPolio eradication is one of the most ambitious public health initiatives undertaken in human history. Launched in 1988 by the World…
Caring for those who cared
Photo: SHRADDHA SABURI HEALTH SERVICEAs a married, working woman with a child, it was impossible for Jasmine Bajracharya to take days off to…
Kul Chandra Gautam's long journey home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzp3Lh9zCNU&feature=youtu.beKul Chandra Gautam’s life is an inspirational story of how a school boy in one of…