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COVID-19 pandemic fuels largest continued backslide in vaccinations in three decades

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GENEVA/NEW YORK,15 July 2022 – The largest sustained decline in childhood vaccinations in approximately 30 years has been recorded in official data published today by WHO and UNICEF. The percentage of children who received three doses of the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP3) – a marker for immunization coverage within and…

RapidPro helps ensure COVID-19 orphans receive care in Indonesia

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7-year-old Afiqa misses her mother terribly since COVID-19 claimed her life a few months ago. After returning from school she often retreats and spends long hours watching family videos with her mother’s voice. “She even forbids us from deleting a video of her mother’s last hours of life,” says Afiqa’s father Eko, who works as a parking attendant…

How Big Data and AI saved lives in Indonesia

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Muri is outside the Posyandu (local health centre) near her home in North Jakarta. It’s been closed for services since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the seven months since the first detected case of COVID-19 in Indonesia, more than 222,000 Indonesians have contracted COVID-19, with 8841 reported deaths. Carrying her 9-month-old daughter…

70% of 10-Year-Olds now in Learning Poverty, Unable to Read and Understand a Simple Text

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WASHINGTON, 23 June 2022 — As a result of the worst shock to education and learning in recorded history, learning poverty has increased by a third in low- and middle-income countries, with an estimated 70 per cent of 10-year-olds unable to understand a simple written text, according to a new report published today by the World Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF…

Global hunger crisis pushing one child into severe malnutrition every minute in 15 crisis-hit countries

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NEW YORK, 23 June 2022 — Almost 8 million children under 5 in 15 crisis-hit countries are at risk of death from severe wasting unless they receive immediate therapeutic food and care – with the number rising by the minute, UNICEF warned today as world leaders prepare to meet at the G7 summit. Since the start of the year, the escalating global…

Statement on the current COVID-19 outbreak in DPR Korea UNICEF East Asia and Pacific

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Bangkok, 19 May 2022: “UNICEF is deeply concerned about the current COVID-19 outbreak in DPR Korea (DPRK) and is ready to provide immediate support to the Government in its current efforts to contain the spread of the virus. “While we have not yet been able to contact our Government partners since the outbreak was first reported, we have already…

World Immunization Week: UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Liam Neeson headlines week-long commemoration of global vaccination efforts and calls for greater investment

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NEW YORK, 24 April 2022 – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Liam Neeson is leading UNICEF’s global immunization initiative with a global message thanking the scientists, parents, health workers and others who have been so critical in helping to immunize children over the last two decades. In a video released ahead of World Immunization Week , Neeson…

UNICEF concerned that COVID-19 prevention measures have resulted in family separation

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Bangkok, 15 April 2022: UNICEF in East asia and Pacific has noted with concern that isolation and quarantine under COVID-19 prevention and mitigation measures have resulted in some cases in family separation when either a caregiver or child is placed in a facility while the other remains at home, or when they are placed outside the home in…

With 23 countries yet to fully reopen schools, education risks becoming ‘greatest divider’ as COVID-19 pandemic enters third year – UNICEF

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NEW YORK, 30 March 2022 – As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, 23 countries – home to around 405 million schoolchildren – are yet to fully open schools, with many schoolchildren at risk of dropping out, according to a new UNICEF report released today. Are children really learning? features country-level data on the impact of the COVID-…

Less than half of countries are implementing learning recovery strategies at scale to help children catch up

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NEW YORK/PARIS/WASHINGTON D.C., 30 March 2022 - “More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, we are witnessing a colossal loss to children’s learning. Less than half of countries are implementing learning recovery strategies at scale to help children catch up. Unless all countries implement and expand programs in the coming months, they risk…

Two thirds of households with children have lost income during pandemic

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NEW YORK, 10 March 2022 – At least two thirds of households with children have lost income since the COVID-19 pandemic hit two years ago, according to a new report published today by UNICEF and the World Bank. Impact of COVID-19 on the welfare of households with children – which presents findings from data collected in 35 countries – notes that…

28 January 2022

No excuses. Keep schools open. Children can’t wait.

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NEW YORK, 27 January 2022 – “As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues its spread all over the world, we urge governments to do everything in their power to keep it from further disrupting children’s education. “To avert a learning catastrophe and put children back on the learning track, UNICEF recommends the following: “Keep schools open. An…