child health

Bangladesh adopts 10-year roadmap to go lead-free, but real fight starts now

The new strategy links regulation, surveillance, battery traceability and cleanup, but experts say success depends on enforcement, safer markets,...

Measles study finds no genetic changes reducing vaccine protection

Infants below routine vaccination age accounted for the largest affected group, while researchers say wider studies are needed to...

Bangladesh moves Lead-Free Strategy to Combat Lead posioning, 8,800 Schools at Risk wans study

As Bangladesh advances a 2025–2035 lead-free roadmap, experts warn enforcement, testing and safer recycling will determine whether children, workers...

80% of used batteries recycled informally in Bangladesh as experts urge urgent market reform

Experts urge Bangladesh to reform its battery recycling sector, warning that unsafe lead processing is poisoning children, damaging the...

Chinese-linked lead recycling plant fined after years of pollution complaints

A Chinese-linked battery recycling plant in Dhamrai has been fined for operating without clearance, spotlighting Bangladesh’s growing lead poisoning...

Kenya launches study on aflatoxins and climate risks to child health

Kenya has launched a three-year TRACE study to examine how climate change is increasing aflatoxin exposure among children and...

Bangladesh soil lead levels hit 70,000 ppm, alarming experts

Alarming research reveals extreme lead contamination from illegal battery recycling in Bangladesh, putting millions of children at risk and...

Battery waste poses major public health threat in Bangladesh

Unregulated battery-powered rickshaws are driving a severe lead pollution crisis in Bangladesh, endangering children, contaminating food and water, and...

Toxic battery factory threatens schoolchildren’s health 

Residents in Shibpur, Narsingdi, say a battery factory next to Purandia Government Primary School burns discarded batteries, filling classrooms...

Lead pollution poses a grave threat to children: speakers

Speakers warn that lead pollution severely harms children’s health and development, as DoE and Pure Earth review progress, enforcement...