Poor nutrition and inadequate WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) practices significantly impact children’s health, nutrition, and cognitive development, especially in low-income settings.
Teachers' roles in preventing and mitigating school bullying have garnered more attention throughout the past decade. However, teacher responses and practices in secondary schools are not understood systematically.
We conducted a scoping review to provide the most recent evidence of the resources (legal, financial, human, infrastructural) allocated to child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) and the effectiveness of CAMH interventions in 15 low- and middle-income countries of the region.
Adolescents, particularly those in Sub-Saharan Africa, experience major challenges in getting accurate and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information because of sociocultural norms, stigma, and limited SRH educational resources.
This report and infographic summarizes the importance of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) knowledge, socio-emotional skills, and resilience for boys aged 4 to 19, spanning childhood through adolescence.
The global shift away from healthy, diverse, and sustainable diets threatens children’s health and futures.
This review examines and describes current school food and nutrition initiatives within the literature that aim to promote healthier, sustainable diets within the Pacific Islands region.
School feeding programmes (SFPs) are widely implemented to address child poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition, yet evidence on their influence on children’s health outcomes is limited.
The past decade has seen an increase in policy initiatives and school-based interventions aimed at improving children's mental health.
The objective of this narrative review of the literature was to present a detailed understanding of unintended adolescent pregnancies and explore the factors associated with these pregnancies, their consequences, and any gaps identified in the extant literature.