July 2012: UNICEF recently launched a four-year nutrition security initiative, supported by the European Union (EU), to achieve sustainable reductions in under-five and maternal under-nutrition. It focuses on four sub-Saharan African countries – including Burkina Faso – and five Asian countries.
May 2013: Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of children living in institutions is conservatively estimated at 240,000.
December 2012: Adolescent participants in a UNICEF-supported project digitally mapped HIV risks in two Port-au-Prince neighbourhoods.
March 2013: An October 2012 immunization campaign against measles and rubella in Mongolia reached over 500,000 children.
October 2012: Pakistan is one of only three remaining polio-endemic countries in the world.