Nigeria

Demographic Data

  • Total Population: 173,620,000
  • Population under 15: 46%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 52.5 years
  • Human Development Index: 152 out of 187
  • World Bank Status: Lower Middle Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 3.2%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.6 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 19%
  • Early Marriage (% of children married by 18 years): 49%

Sources: World Bank, UNDP, UNAIDS, DHS 2013

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Marzieh Takaffoli, Maliheh Arshi, Meroe Vameghi, & Mir Taher Mousavi - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study aimed to determine the approach to child welfare in Iran by reviewing Iran’s laws and macro policies, and analysing them to provide an explicit and comprehensive definition for child welfare.

Michelle R. Munson, Colleen C. Katz, Nathanael J. Okpych, Mark E. Courtney - Journal of Adolescent Health,

The aim of the study was to document mental health service use (counseling and medication) among youth in foster care, examine how prepared they feel to manage their mental health, and investigate predictors of service use and preparedness.

Concern Worldwide,

This guide is designed to assist Concern's health and nutrition staff responsible for the management and coordination of Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) operations to adapt and modify programme modalities in the context of COVID-19.

REPSSI,

This presentation from REPSSI provides some guidance on how to care for babies and young children during the COVID-19 pandemic, including how to tend to their health and development.

Paul H. Harnett & Gerald Featherstone - Children and Youth Services Review,

The authors of this study draw on the decision-making ecology model of judgement and decision making in child protection to speculate on possible causes of false positive errors in decision making regarding the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families.

Dennis Golm, Sagari Sarkar, Nuria Mackes, Graeme Fairchild, Mitul Mehta, Michael Rutter, Edmund Sonuga-Barke - Psychological Medicine,

Using 20-year follow-up data from a unique natural experiment – the large scale adoption of children exposed to extreme deprivation in Romanian institutions in the 1980s – the authors of this paper examined, for the first time, whether such deficits are still present in adulthood and whether they are associated with deprivation-related symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Delphine West, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Lisa Van Hove, Laura Gypen, Frank Van Holen - Developmental Child Welfare,

This review provides an overview of the associated characteristics with the quality of attachment between foster carers and foster children.

Sergio Fernández-Artamendi, Alba Águila-Otero, Jorge F. Del Valle, Amaia Bravo - Child Abuse & Neglect,

The present study aimed to evaluate the specific impact of different forms of victimization on alcohol and cannabis use problems among adolescents in Residential Child Care (RCC) in Spain, attending to sex differences.

Delphine West, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Lisa Van Hove, Laura Gypen, Frank Van Holen - Developmental Child Welfare,

This review provides an overview of the associated characteristics with the quality of attachment between foster carers and foster children.

Najat Maalla M'jid, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children,

This statement from the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children calls for solidarity in light of the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that no child is left behind.