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At Least 1 In 7 Children And Young People Has Lived Under Stay-At-Home Policies For Most Of The Last Year, Putting Mental Health And Well-Being At Risk – UNICEF

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NEW YORK (March 4, 2021) – At least 1 in 7 children – or 332 million globally – has lived under required or recommended nationwide stay-at-home policies for at least nine months since the start of the...

COVAX COVID-19 Vaccine Deliveries Ramp Up in Africa & SE Asia

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What promises to be the largest, fastest and most complex vaccination campaign in history is picking up steam as UNICEF delivers COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility around the world.

COVID-19: Schools for more than 168 million children globally have been completely closed for almost a full year, says UNICEF

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NEW YORK (March 3, 2021) – Schools for more than 168 million children globally have been completely closed for almost an entire year due to COVID-19 lockdowns, according to new data released today by...

These Women and Girls Won't Let COVID-19 Stop Them From Helping Others

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Please Donate COVID-19 has hit women especially hard. They are the caregivers, making up roughly 70 percent of the health care workforce , which has exposed them to a disproportionate share of the...

UNICEF Urges Action to End ‘Catastrophic’ Education Emergency

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In sharing its latest analysis, UNICEF renewed a longstanding call for governments to prioritize the reopening of schools to end a "catastrophic education emergency."

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore's Remarks At Yemen Pledging Conference

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NEW YORK (March 2, 2021) – "The children of Yemen are counting on us. "They’re living through a nightmare of endless fighting. "They’re threatened by malnutrition — and deadly disease like diarrhea...

Remarks By Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director At COVAX Media Briefing On First Deliveries And First Round Of Allocations

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NEW YORK (March 2, 2021) – “The last year has been a dark one for families all over the world, but the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines provided a hopeful light at the end of the tunnel. At long...

COVAX Publishes First Round Of Allocations

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NEW YORK (March 2, 2021) – The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) and the World Health Organization (WHO), as co-leads of the COVAX initiative...

COVAX COVID-19 Vaccinations Underway in West Africa

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Donate Now A brass band played outside the Treichville vaccination center in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire on March 1, 2021, as health care and frontline workers filed in to become some of the first people...

First COVID-19 COVAX vaccine doses administered in Africa

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GENEVA / NEW YORK / OSLO (March 1, 2021) – As the global rollout of COVAX vaccines accelerates, the first COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in Africa using COVAX doses began today in Ghana and Côte d...

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