CHILDREN

Costa Rica begins Covid-19 vaccination for children under five

Published on: October 4, 2022
15:56

San Jose, Oct 4 (Prensa Latina) The Covid-19 vaccination for children aged six months to five will officially start on Tuesday at all Costa Rica´s Social Security Fund (CCSS) centers.

India warns on incidence of congenital heart diseases

Published on: October 1, 2022
16:55

New Delhi, Oct 1 (Prensa Latina) Congenital Heart Disease (CHD), which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, U.S., acknowledges to be the most common congenital disorder, is responsible for 28% of all congenital birth defects, and accounts for 6%-10 % of all the infant deaths in India.

Uruguayan children are most hit by poverty, says INE

Published on: October 1, 2022
13:04

Montevideo, Oct 1 (Prensa Latina) Abject poverty most affects Uruguayan children whose families are currently facing up such a situation, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE).

Singapore authorizes Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for children

Published on: September 29, 2022
13:59

Singapore, Sep 29 (Prensa Latina) Singapore has passed the use of Pfizer's Comirnaty Covid-19 vaccine in children aged six months through four years, the Health Sciences Authority (HAS) announced on Thursday.

UNICEF warns on educational abandonment in Lebanon

Published on: September 29, 2022
12:12

Beirut, Sep 29 (Prensa Latina) The representative of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Edward Beigbeder on Thursday warned about the educational abandonment in Lebanon in the context of the successive crises in this sector.

UNICEF warns about children’s drama in irregular migration

Published on: September 6, 2022
10:43

Panama City, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) Reports from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Panama warned of the increase in the passage of migrant children alone through the Darien jungle.

UNICEF denounces high number of children killed or injured in Yemen

Published on: August 29, 2022
08:36

Aden, Yemen, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) Almost 11,000 children have died or been wounded as a result of the conflict in Yemen since 2015, denounced Adele Khodr, UNICEF regional director for the Middle East and North Africa of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

EGREM organized children’s activity to close summer in Cuba

Published on: August 29, 2022
00:30

Havana, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) Cuba's state-owned record company EGREM organized the children's party "El regreso de Los Yoyos" in the 31 y 2 Cultural Center in Vedado neighborhood on Sunday, and as part of the closing activities for the summer in Cuba.

Devastating crisis for Sri Lankan children is a cautionary tale

Published on: August 27, 2022
07:38

Colombo, Aug 27 (Prensa Latina) UNICEF's Regional Director for South Asia, George Laryea-Adjei, on Saturday said as the economic crisis goes on rattling Sri Lanka, it´s the poorest, most vulnerable girls and boys who are paying the steepest price.

2 Pa. judges ordered to pay M to kids-for-cash scandal victims

Published on: August 17, 2022
19:01

Washington, Aug 17 (Prensa Latina) Two Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit prisons in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay over million to hundreds who fell victim to their crimes, CBS reported on Wednesday. In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan judges locked up a country-run juvenile detention center and accepted .8 million in illegal payments from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups.

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