In American families and classrooms, there's a growing movement to empower kids to "get active and save lives." The UNICEF Kid Power program converts the boundless energy of kids — and their innate ...

Levels of hunger around the world are rising. Plumpy’nut, a peanut-based paste (or sometimes biscuit) is able to feed children experiencing severe malnutrition, often saving lives. But how ...

It was early 2015 when Francess, a mother from Sierra Leone, saw her two-month-old daughter Naomi Sam growing weaker by the day. “I had reached a point where I thought my child was going to die,” she ...

The Women and Child Development ministry has written to all states and union territories that there isn't enough evidence to support the use of Ready-to-Use-Therapeutic foods (RUTF) for managing ...

To combat the menace of disabilities and deaths resulting from acute malnutrition, especially among children across the country, the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) will this year ...

For the two U.S. companies that make life-saving ready-to-use therapeutic food – the dense paste most widely recognized as Plumpy’Nut – the first year of the second Trump administration has been a ...

Lawmakers in Jigawa State House of Assembly have dedicated N150 million from their constituency projects allowance for procurement of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food, RUTF for treatment of severe acute ...

UNICEF has handed over Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) worth over N500 million to the Jigawa State Government to address the severe malnutrition crisis affecting the region. This donation is ...

MANILA, Philippines – The lack of proper facilities and sources in remote areas leave severely malnourished children with not much choice but to travel just to be treated. In some cases, they die ...