Press Releases

DURHAM / NEW YORK (May 6, 2021) – Duke University and UNICEF today announced the selection of the second cohort of social entrepreneurs participating in the Duke-UNICEF Innovation Accelerator...

NEW YORK (May 5, 2021) – UNICEF has sent additional critical lifesaving supplies to India, including 2 million face shields and 200,000 surgical masks. Thanks to end-to-end logistics support from DP...

NEW YORK (May 4, 2021) – “The scenes we are witnessing in South Asia are unlike anything our region has seen before. Family members of patients are pleading for help as the region reels under an acute...

NEW YORK (April 30, 2021) – “This week, 125 children, including 114 unaccompanied children, were rescued at sea, off the coast of Libya. “The Central Mediterranean continues to be one of the deadliest...

NEW YORK (April 29, 2021) – UNICEF has sent critical lifesaving supplies, including 3,000 oxygen concentrators, diagnostic tests, medical kits, and other equipment to help India in its battle with a...

NEW YORK (April 29, 2021) – To combat vaccine hesitancy worldwide, PGP, (The Public Good Projects ), UNICEF and Yale Institute for Global Health launched the Vaccination Demand Observatory today. As...

NEW YORK (April 28, 2021) – “This week is World Immunization Week. But effectively, this year has become World Immunization Year. “Because after a year of lockdowns, empty classrooms, missed...

NEW YORK (April 28, 2021) – While immunization services have started to recover from disruptions caused by COVID-19, millions of children remain vulnerable to deadly diseases, the World Health...

NEW YORK (April 28, 2021) – An estimated 738,000 people, half of whom are children, are now internally displaced across the Central African Republic (CAR) as a result of ongoing violence and...

NEW YORK (April 26, 2021) – A recent surge in armed and inter-community violence in the eastern province of Ituri in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is worsening the plight of children, with...