Tag: UNICEF
Despite COVID-19 challenges, Uganda receives Polio and Pentavalent Vaccines
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 ... Read More
More women and children survive today than ever before – UN report
Despite 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 ... Read More
An open letter to the world’s children 8 reasons why I’m worried, and hopeful, about the next generation
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, ... Read More
UNICEF poll: More than a third of young people in 30 countries reportbeing a victim of online bullying
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 ... Read More
UNICEF launches swift response as first Ebola cases and deaths confirmed in Uganda
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 ... Read More
Dividend or Disaster: UNICEF’s new report into population growth in Africa
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 ... Read More
ECHO contributes 2 million Euros to UNICEF’s emergency response to the South Sudanese refugee crisis in Uganda
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 ... Read More
