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Conflict, climate change & COVID-19 threaten decades of progress in childhood immunization. UNICEF is working to protect every child. Mary Yandiru hugs her baby, Edgar, outside Dramba Health Center III in Uganda's Yumbe district. Edgar receives his routine immunizations at the health center, which is equipped with a solar-powered ...

Soni Faisal knows only too well how polio can forever alter a child's future. She has made it her mission to protect Pakistan's children from this highly contagious, crippling disease. Children in Lahore, Pakistan, welcome a UNICEF-supported polio vaccination team with big smiles on Jan. 11, 2021. © UNICEF/UN0399457/Bukhar ...

Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta reflects on the importance of empowering girls. Five-year-old Rokiatou learns mathematics in Côte d’Ivoire in 2022. During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of schoolchildren across the globe were cut off from in-person learning. Some are still affected by prolonged school closures. © UNICEF/UN0613239/Dejongh As UNICEF ...

The knock-on effects of the pandemic threaten to derail the future of a generation — girls in particular need support to stay in school. A young student hugs her notebook outside her school in the village of Rohidi, Barmer district, Rajasthan, India. © UNICEF/UN0594916/Panjwan COVID-related school closures disrupted the ...

The scope and scale of hardship and health risks for children and families in Afghanistan prompted UNICEF to launch its largest-ever appeal for a single country. More support is urgently needed to help fund emergency nutrition, health and protection services as winter's cold sets in and the country's humanitarian ...

We have been here before: Lessons learned in the fight against polio are informing the global COVID-19 response.  Health workers and volunteers participate in a polio immunization campaign in Kaduna, Nigeria in 2019. © Rotary International By Meghan Doetschman, Global Cause Partnerships, UNICEF USA and Stephanie Jacquier, Global Philanthropy, ...

A nurse at Buéa Regional Hospital in Buéa, southwest Cameroon, flashes a "V for vaccinated" sign showing that she has received a coronavirus vaccine. © UNICEF/UN0419318/Dejongh On March 11, it will be a full year since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus was officially declared a pandemic by the ...

UNICEF-supported polio vaccinators go door-to-door in Pakistan, protecting children from deadly disease. In Lahore, Pakistan, girls between the ages of 3 and 5 welcome a team of polio vaccinators. © Syed Mehdi Bukhari for UNICEF On January 11, Pakistan launched its first vaccination campaign of 2021, with an ambitious ...

A UNICEF-supported vaccinator administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a fellow health worker at Lok Nayak Hospital in New Delhi, India. © UNICEF/UN0400302/Reddy Vaccinating the world against COVID-19 will be a herculean task — the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history. And UNICEF is playing a major role, ...

Mekak, 11, sits with her grandmother near a community toilet in Mumbai, India. UNICEF and partners are working to sustain urban sanitation and hygiene preparedness in schools during the COVID-19 public health crisis. © Dhiraj Singh for UNICEF “Diwali used to be celebrated with the burning of firecrackers, a ...