UNICEF announced this Friday that it has activated its emergency response to cholera together with the Ministry of Health and other partners to help protect children and families by containing the disease, Following the confirmation of a case of cholera in the governorate of Akkar, in northern Lebanon. Related:Let Us Not Allow Culturicide Against the […]

The event, co-hosted by the United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) and the British Council, is also dedicated to sharing best practices for enhancing access to education among girls and children with special needs on the continent. On Tuesday, senior officials said at a forum in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital that Sub-Saharan African countries should […]

For UNICEF the events in Al Kuma are not isolated after receiving more reports of civilians killed and injured in Melit, North Darfur state. On Tuesday, UNICEF said that the ongoing violence and widespread disease outbreaks are keeping millions of children in Sudan at grave risk today after more than a year and a half […]

Three-day humanitarian breaks are planned in various areas to allow for the inoculation of over 640,000 children. The World Health Organization has announced the distribution of 1.2 million doses of polio vaccine in Gaza, with an additional 400,000 to be distributed, as part of an emergency campaign following the first case of this childhood disease […]

World Breastfeeding Week is an annual celebration that is held every year from Aug. 1 to 7 in more than 120 countries.

More than half of unvaccinated children live in the 31 countries with fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings. On Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) called for a catch-up in child immunization, warning global vaccinations of children stalled last year, leaving 2.7 million unvaccinated or with insufficient inoculations. RELATED: […]

The officials observed that education is one of the most protective and powerful tools that an adolescent girl can utilize to be healthy and do better in life.

They lie in nations already affected or in the future trajectory of the devastating hurricane.

“They are apparently healthy children in communities where 30 to 40 percent of them are chronically malnourished. It is a problem of normalization and it is common that it is not identified as a priority”. On Friday, UNICEF warned that one in five children under two suffer from chronic malnutrition in Ecuador, a figure that […]

As a result, a quarter of the world’s children are surviving on extremely poor diets, consuming only two or fewer of the major food groups.