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2011, Two community health workers in Hatcliffe Extension, Harare demonstrate to Linda Tigere how to wash hands properly using soap to prevent disease. Linda and her son survived a cholera outbreak that claimed her mother's life in 2008.

Newsnet: Zimbabwe's Cholera Crisis

Zimbabwe's raging cholera epidemic is one of the world's largest.

Newsnet: Saving babies and mothers

In October, I wrote a post about the tragic toll of maternal and neonatal mortality and lamented that a UNICEF study on this crucial issue did not get the media attention it deserved. [[{"type":"media...

Thank you

As the year draws to a close, we're grateful for the generous support you've given to UNICEF this year. In these times, financially challenging for so many, your commitment to the world's children is...

Sarah Jessica Parker: A small price with a big return

© UNICEF/07-0579/Pirozzi LIBERIA: An infant is weighed in a sling scale , as part of a UNICEF-assisted growth monitoring program, at Redemption Hospital in Monrovia, the capital. For the final 12 days...

Ne-Yo: The difference between life and death

© UNICEF/03-0188/ Pirozzi ANGOLA: A woman health worker fills a syringe with measles vaccine to inoculate a boy against the disease. An insulated cold case was used to transport the vaccines at a...

Al Roker: Help put a stop to deaths by measles

© UNICEF/06-0093/Noorani BANGLADESH: A boy presses a cotton swab to his arm after receiving a measles vaccination at a site for vulnerable children, including those who live or work on the streets, in...

Nicole Richie: Give the gift of warmth and security

© UNICEF/92-0343/Isaac AFGHANISTAN: A man and his daughter share a blanket in the cold, in the village of Bagrami outside Kabul.More than thirteen years of war have destroyed the country's physical...

Joel Madden: All children need safe, clean water

© UNICEF Kenya/00366/Noorani KENYA: Doreas Ejore (16 year old) drinks water from a UNICEF-supplied hand pump in Napeililim Mixed Primary School in Lodwar town in Turkana District. For the final 12...

Clay Aiken: Help kids in emergencies stay in school

© UNICEF/05-0203/Pietrasik SRI LANKA: Eight-year-old Shahid carries a batch of exercise books at Ak-Al Badr Nagar Vidyalaya School in the eastern district of Ampara. The books, which bear the UNICEF...