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Child survival
Every woman, newborn, child, and adolescent should have an equal chance to survive and thrive.
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Vaccination: fighting disinformation and rumours
“My goal is for all children from 0 to 11 months to be vaccinated even during this pandemic period,” explains Thérèse Mbuyi, community liaison for the city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise in the country, many parents refuse to go to health...
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Training to save lives
Still weakened and emaciated, Annie Muke hugs her newborn baby close and realizes gradually that she has grazed the worst. When she was due to give birth to her fourth child, things did not go as planned. “She arrived in a critical condition”, said Fifi Lomboto, the midwife who accompanied Annie during her childb...
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The story of Mbuyi, cured of malnutrition
“Ndundu, Tshikapa, Kananga”, says Jeannette, thinking of the long road she traveled with her children a few months ago. At the end of 2018, Jeannette was forced to leave Angola just like the more than 300.000 citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), because she did not have documents allowing her to rem...
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UNICEF DRC Annual Report 2018
Second largest country on the African continent, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has an estimated population of 85 million people, of which 56% are children. Despite its wealth in natural resources and potential for economic development, the DRC is one of the poorest countries in the world. Nearly 80% o...
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Vaccination to contain severe measles outbreak underway in DRC amidst Ebola and mass displacement
DRC / DAKAR / GENEVA / NEW YORK, 11 July 2019 – Health workers are urgently rolling out a complex measles vaccination campaign targeting 67,000 children in Ituri, northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a region ravaged by armed conflict that is now also the hub of the second deadliest Ebola outbreak on ...
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DRC: 3 million mosquito nets distributed in 20 days
Kasaï Province, a landlocked area in the centre of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is one of the poorest in the country. Already vulnerable, the recent conflicts and the mass arrival of Congolese nationals returning from Angola have exacerbated the extremely precarious situation. Over 4 in 10 children aged...
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At 72, Papa Télé is putting in the work to ensure that every child is vaccinated
For more than 15 years Télésphore has been a community outreach worker in Kalemie, a town in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Twice a week, Papa Télé, as he is called by his friends, walks the town's neighbourhoods to identify children who have not been vaccinated. With his cowboy ha...
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A mosquito net for all: a solidarity distribution campaign
Des enfants avec leur moustiquaire en RDC UNICEF DRC Langa "I would no longer be a victim of malaria", says Esther joyfully, a young student from Tanganyika Province, southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A few days ago, Esther received a mosquito net impregnated with insecticide at school. "Now I sleep with my brother and my little…
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Child survival
Challenge, Despite a significant progress, too many children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) die before the age of five due to preventable or treatable diseases such as neonatal complications, pneumonia, malaria and diarrhea. Besides the fragmented health systems, major bottlenecks of health service deli...
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Children account for more than one third of Ebola cases in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
INSHASA, DAKAR, NEW YORK, GENEVA, 11 December 2018 – Children now account for more than one third of the Ebola cases in affected regions of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UNICEF said today. The UN children’s agency also reported that one in ten Ebola cases is under five-years-old, while childr...
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UNICEF DRC in 2017
Although the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has made significant progress in reducing child mortality and access to education for children, a majority of children remain deprived of many of their rights. In spite of vast natural resources, the DRC is one of the poorest countries in the world. It is ranked 176t...
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UNICEF in DRC in 2016
In spite of its vast physical size and limitless natural resources, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the poorest countries in the world, ranking 176th out of 188 countries in the 2015 human development report. Child poverty is widespread, particularly in conflict-affected and hard-to-reach areas. A...