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2.4 billion people will lack improved sanitation in 2015
Some 2.4 billion people – one-third of the world’s population – will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015, according to a joint WHO/UNICEF report issued today. The report, entitled Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water 2013 Update, warns that, at the current rate of progress, the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the proportion of the 1990 population without sanitation will be missed by eight per cent – or half a billion people.

National Health Week time again!

Interview with UNICEF Mozambique Chief of Child Protection Mayke Huijbregts

Interview with Maaike Arts about the grave problem of child stunting in Mozambique

Pneumonia vaccine launched

Interview with UNICEF Mozambique EPI Specialist Onei Uetela about the launch of a new pneumococcal vaccine

REAL LIVES STORIES

Birth registration a vital necessity
Laura Nhembe only learned that birth registration services would be offered during the National Health Week when she brought her children in for vaccination. Fortunately, she has the relevant documentation on her, and is now standing in front of the registrar, Laximim Pelembe, with her two young girls. Telma is only 4 months old, while Marta is 5, going on 6. Laura is very clear about the importance of birth registration – “para ir a escola”, she says loudly.

Initiatives to register births for protection programmes gain momentum

New vaccine to save thousands of children in Mozambique

The best possible presence in the lives of HIV children

Safe water guarantees our health

Surviving displacement thanks to neighbors

A Good Samaritan helps his fellow flood victims