Historical moment: India’s first wave of vaccine shipments for COVAX Facility leave Pune
India’s manufacturing base is playing a critical role to close the gap between richer and poorer countries,
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Almost 2 billion people depend on health care facilities without basic water services, warn WHO & UNICEF
Lack of water puts health care workers and patients at higher risk of COVID-19 infection
Danger of major measles and polio epidemics, warn UNICEF and WHO
As COVID-19 disrupts immunizations, urgent action needed to protect most vulnerable children from deadly and debilitating diseases
COVID-19 robs children in poor countries of nearly four months of school
The COVID-19 pandemic has robbed children in the poorest countries of nearly four months of
Three billion people globally lack handwashing facilities at home: UNICEF
The situation is also alarming at schools: 43 per cent globally (70 per cent in least developed countries) lack a handwashing facility with water and soap, affecting hundreds of millions of school-age children, according to the estimates.
UN chief condemns continuing escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh
The Secretary-General also underlined that there is no military solution to the conflict and urged the sides to immediately cease all hostilities.
Children have ‘nowhere to turn’, reports UNICEF
Disruptions to services for preventing and responding to violence in the home , due to the global pandemic, has left children in more than 100 countries vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, a UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) survey has found.
Covid-19 pandemic creating largest disruption in education, UN warns
The UN estimates that the pandemic has affected more than one billion students worldwide.
Governments should promote breast feeding: WHO & UNICEF
By IAR Desk UNICEF and WHO, in line with the policy actions advocated by the
WHO and UNICEF warn of a decline in vaccinations during COVID-19
WHO and UNICEF have called for immediate efforts to vaccinate all children as new data shows that, before the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine coverage stalled at 85 per cent for nearly a decade, with 14 million unvaccinated infants yearly