KENYA – United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has strengthened it collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Kenya in the areas of family health and nutrition. The Country Representative of…
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African leaders commit to end AIDS among children by 2030
TANZANIA – Ministers and representatives from twelve African countries have committed themselves, and laid out their plans, to end AIDS in children by 2030. The first ministerial meeting of the…
Read MoreUNICEF supports Malawi’s fight against cholera with lifesaving supplies
MALAWI – Malawi has received lifesaving supplies worth about US$300,000 from UNICEF to support the fight against a cholera outbreak which has killed more than 700 people, including 104 children,…
Read MoreUNICEF bags US$5.1M in funding from Japan to improve healthcare delivery in Syria
SYRIA – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has received US$5.1 million in funding from the Government of Japan to scale up delivery of quality healthcare in the Syrian Arab…
Read MoreMalawi nabs 2.9M doses of cholera vaccines from WHO to stop the current outbreak
MALAWI – The Government of Malawi, through the Ministry of Health, has secured a consignment of 2.9 million doses of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) from the World Health Organization (WHO)…
Read MoreLesotho to kickstart measles, rubella, COVID-19 vaccination campaign
LESOTHO – The Ministry of Health in Lesotho has announced that it will conduct the national integrated Measles and Rubella (MR) vaccination campaign and COVID-19 targeting children between 0 to…
Read MoreUNICEF warns of unprecedented child deaths in Somalia as drought worsens
SOMALIA – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that thousands of severely malnourished boys and girls in Somalia are at risk of dying amid historic drought in the…
Read MoreUNICEF, WHO, KSrelief ink vaccine procurement deal for epidemic prevention
AFRICA – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have received funding agreements from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) valued at…
Read MoreUganda to receive US$2M from the UK to scale up its logistical capacity in response to Ebola
UGANDA – The Republic of Uganda is set to receive US$2.17 million (UGX9.3B) in humanitarian assistance from the United Kingdom (UK) that will be used to build capacity for Ebola…
Read MoreZimbabwe adopts first-ever National Surgical, Obstetric and Anesthesia Strategy
ZIMBABWE – The Government of Zimbabwe, with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), has formally unveiled its first National Surgical, Obstetric and Anaesthesia Strategy (NSOAS) for the period 2022-2025.…
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