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Nutrition

Read how we work to ensure that all children have the best nutritional start in life.

04/10/2017

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Why family-friendly policies are critical to increasing breastfeeding rates worldwide - UNICEF

Policies that support breastfeeding are not yet available to most mothers worldwide.

31/07/2019

Dr. Baktygul Pakirova watches Jiydegul, hold her newborn son Nurdan. After 2 days in the hospital mother and son will be ready to go home.

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World not delivering quality maternal health care to poorest mothers - UNICEF

Millions of mothers at risk due to prohibitive health care costs, lack of access to services and skilled professionals, and child marriage 03 June 2019

04/06/2019

Mother and newborn baby at the Osh Regional Maternity Hospital in Kyrgyzstan.

Press release

New Year’s Babies: Over 15,700 children will be born in parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia on New Year’s Day

As the calendar turns to 2019, UNICEF calls on nations to meet every newborn’s right to health and survival

01/01/2019

Mother Bayarmaa with her baby Uuriintsolmon (2 weeks), in her living room in Murun, Mongolia on the 1st of March 2018.

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Every Child ALIVE

Make saving newborn lives a part of your New Year's resolution for 2019!

01/01/2019

Ana Ivanovic speaking with mothers at a neonatal care unit in Serbia.

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Ana Ivanovic Visits Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Ana Ivanovic, National Ambassador for UNICEF in Serbia, visits Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

26/12/2018

14th May 2018: 18 month old baby Kim Hyang Jong in Jongju City Hospital, DPR Korea, with her mother.

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New Global Commitment to Primary Health Care for all at Astana Conference

Declaration of Astana charts course to achieve universal health coverage, 40 years since declaration on primary health care in Alma-Ata

25/10/2018

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Media advisory: Global conference on primary health care

World Leaders to declare historic commitment to primary health care and health for all in Astana between 25-26 October 2018

09/10/2018

Mother breastfeeds her baby, while the father and the older son support them.

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UNICEF calls for the narrowing of “breastfeeding gaps” between rich and poor worldwide

Despite the benefits of breastfeeding, 1 in 5 babies in high-income countries are not breastfed at all, compared to just 1 in 25 in low- and-middle-income countries

10/05/2018

Bikile Aljra, 20, breastfeeds while giving 'kangaroo mother care', a method of care for pre-term infants, to her daughter Leti, at a UNICEF-supported Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the remote Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia.

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Every child ALIVE

The urgent need to end newborn deaths

20/02/2018

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