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Africa to drastically accelerate progress on water, sanitation and hygiene – report
DAKAR, 22 March 2022 –, Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets on water, sanitation and hygiene in Africa will require a dramatic acceleration in the current rates of progress, according to a UNICEF/WHO special report focused on Africa, launched today at the World Water Forum in Dakar, Senegal. ...
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Reimagining Disaster Response in a Post-Pandemic World
This World Humanitarian Day, UNICEF is highlighting the need to prevent, respond to, and protect children from crisis. Long before the emergence of COVID-19, children in many countries were suffering from violence, natural disasters, hunger, and other crises. The pandemic and climate change are exposing how vulner...
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UNICEF begins shipping syringes for the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines under COVAX
NEW YORK, 23 February 2021, , –, UNICEF has sent 100,000 syringes and 1,000 safety boxes for COVID-19 vaccinations to the Maldives by air freight from UNICEF’s humanitarian warehouse in Dubai—part of the first wave of COVID-19-related syringe shipments to begin rolling out in the coming days. Others in the first ...
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Rebuilding after a natural disaster, during COVID-19
Rebuilding after a natural disaster, during COVID-19: Three projects in Southern Africa show South-South cooperation in action, On World Humanitarian Day we commemorate humanitarian workers killed and injured in the course of their work, and we honour all aid and health workers who continue to provide life-saving ...
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Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on the disruption of immunization and basic health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic
NEW YORK, 26 March 2020, : “Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is overstretching health services as health workers are diverted to support the response. “Physical distancing is leading parents to make the difficult decision to defer routine immunization. “Medical goods are in short supply and supply chains ar...
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Cyclone Idai: More than 1.5 million children urgently need assistance across Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe – UNICEF
NEW YORK, 27 March 2019, –, An estimated 3 million people, more than half of whom are children, urgently need humanitarian assistance across Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai – the worst disaster to hit southern Africa in at least two decades. Today UNICEF launched an appeal for US$1...