Health

A new member of Amrakits community, Shushanik, was born this May in Armenia’s northern Lori marz. What she needs first and foremost, are the trustworthy hands of her doctor, the nurses and her mother. Like all other children who live in rural communities in Armenia, Shushanik is at a disadvantage, including children whose mothers have only basic…

Child health. Challenges, For every child, quality healthcare Armenia has achieved a two times reduction in infant mortality rate during the last decades, reflecting intensive efforts of the Ministry of Health and partners to improve children’s health status. However, during the last three years there is some stagnation. Neonatal mortality counts for 70% of infant deaths.…, Key achievements, A 1 year old baby receives his general vaccine. UNICEF Armenia/2016/Pirozzi General check-ups including growth monitoring and immunisation for babies and children. UNICEF supports Government of Armenia to introduce new vaccines and to sustain very high vaccination coverage. A newborn sleeping girl in the maternity ward. UNICEF Armenia/2018/Osipova…, Mother and Child Nutrition. Challenges, For every child, healthy nutrition UNICEF and Ministry of Health efforts of the last years have contributed to almost halving the stunting rate and to increasing the exclusive breast-feeding rate by 30%. Meanwhile, less attention was paid to child overweight and obesity prevention. ADHS 2015-16 highlighted high prevalence of overweight among <5…, Key achievements, A health worker checking up a newborn in the polyclinic and looking to the child with full of love. UNICEF Armenia/2018/Osipova General check-ups of babies in the Polyclinic of Yerevan, Armenia. UNICEF Armenia works with the Ministry of Health on strengthening regional intensive neonatal care services to decrease neonatal and infant mortality.…

Vaccination is one of the most successful and cost-effective ways to secure the health and future of children. Vaccines protect children against disease and death, saving up to 3 million lives every year. With improved immunization coverage for children, 1.5 million lives more could be saved.   UNICEF has supported the Ministry of Health in…

“I always help my mom with the cooking; I add the salt,” said four-year-old Avet, adding that he loves to eat. “My mother always tells me that we only need a little salt – just one pinch.” We talked to Avet during our visit to one of the inclusive kindergartens in Armenia, where we had gone to find out what children know about salt. He surprised…

13 JULY 2017| GENEVA | NEW YORK – Some 3 in 10 people worldwide, or 2.1 billion, lack access to safe, readily available water at home, and 6 in 10, or 4.4 billion, lack safely managed sanitation, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF. The Joint Monitoring Programme report, Progress on Drinking Water,…

DAKAR/NEW YORK, 5 July 2017 – Children account for over half of the 12 million West and Central African people on the move each year, with some 75 per cent of them remaining in sub-Saharan Africa, and less than one in five heading to Europe – UNICEF announced today as part of a new report. In Search of Opportunities: Voices of children on the move…

NEW ORLEANS, 1 July 2017 – Global entertainer and humanitarian Beyoncé has teamed up with UNICEF through her BeyGOOD philanthropic arm to announce the launch of BEYGOOD4BURUNDI, a multi-year partnership to provide safe water to the most vulnerable children in Burundi. The partnership will support programmes to improve water, sanitation and basic…

NEW YORK, 28 June 2017 – Investing in the health and survival of the most deprived children and communities provides more value for money, saving almost twice as many lives for every US$1 million spent as equivalent investments in less deprived groups, according to a new UNICEF analysis. Narrowing the Gaps: The power of investing in the poorest…

New York, 26 April 2017 – UNICEF procured 2.5 billion doses of vaccines to children in nearly 100 countries in 2016, reaching almost half of the world’s children under the age of five. The figures, released during World Immunization Week, make UNICEF the largest buyer of vaccines for children in the world.  Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the…

NEW YORK, 20 January, 2017 – With no sign of a let-up in the extreme cold weather and storms sweeping Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, refugee and migrant children are threatened by respiratory and other serious illnesses -- and even death from hypothermia, UNICEF said today. In Greece and the Balkans, an estimated 23,700 refugee and migrant…