Sri Lankan schoolchildren play on the water's edge at a beach during sunset in Colombo on July 3, 2013. Sri Lanka's youth population aged 10 to 19 make up some 15 percent of its 20 million people.

Dr. Kapila Jayaratne MBBS, MSc, DCH, MD (Community Medicine) Consultant Community Physician and the President of the Perinatal Society of Sri Lanka discussed child, mother and prenatal care ...

Sri Lanka is the third country in the Asia-Pacific region that was certified to have eliminated the Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT), she said. Article continues after this advertisement ...

The BBC's Charles Haviland in Sri Lanka explains why Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity are at the centre of a police child protection inquiry.

Malki's mother Priyanthika has had to pause her children's schooling so they can earn money by selling fireworks. Food prices in Sri Lanka reached record levels when inflation hit an all-time high ...

Dr. Kapila Jayaratne MBBS, MSc, DCH, MD (Community Medicine) Consultant Community Physician and the President of the Perinatal Society of Sri Lanka discussed child, mother and prenatal care ...