· New UK support to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance to protect up to 75 million children against deadly diseases like measles, polio and typhoid · By vaccinating millions of children against other deadly diseases, we are supporting the world’s most poorest countries so they can cope with rising coronavirus cases · Gavi has so far […]
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Vaccines will ensure uninterrupted routine immunization services for children in Uganda Entebbe: Uganda has today received 3,842,000 doses of bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) to support ongoing routine immunization services throughout the country. The bivalent oral polio vaccines procured by UNICEF, with funding from the Government of Uganda, arrived at Entebbe International Airport via an Emirates Airline cargo flight. […]
Read MoreDespite progress, a pregnant woman or newborn dies somewhere in the world every 11 seconds NEW YORK/ GENEVA/UGANDA: More women and their children are surviving today than ever before, according to new child and maternal mortality estimates released today by United Nations groups* led by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO). Since 2000, child deaths […]
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UNICEF’s Executive Director Henrietta Fore on the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Dear children of today and of tomorrow, Thirty years ago, against the backdrop of a changing world order – the fall of the Berlin Wall, the decline of apartheid, the birth of the world wide web – […]
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U-Report highlights prevalence of cyberbullying and its impact on young people New York: One in three young people in 30 countries said they have been a victim of online bullying, with one in five reporting having skipped school due to cyberbullying and violence, in a new poll released today by UNICEF and the UN Special Representative […]
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5-year-old boy and his grandmother die from Ebola virus in western Uganda UNICEF has launched an emergency Ebola response plan in Uganda following the confirmation of the first three cases of Ebola Virus Disease in the country over the past two days. Among the cases was a 5-year-old boy who, following a visit with his family to […]
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The projected expansion in Africa’s child population will necessitate an increase of more than 11 million skilled education and health personnel by 2030, if it is to keep pace with the continent’s unprecedented demographic transition, UNICEF said today. Africa’s child population is projected to increase by 170 million between now and 2030, taking the number […]
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The Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) has contributed 2 million Euros – 8 billion Uganda shillings – to UNICEF’s emergency nutrition and education response to the South Sudanese refugee crisis in Uganda. “With over 2,000 South Sudanese refugees arriving in Uganda every day since July 2016, Uganda is now host […]
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