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Eastern and Southern Africa

A woman points to a poster on Ebola

Ebola preparedness and response

Focus countries: Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda & Burundi

A mother and child sit during a consultation with a medical practitioner who is part of a mobile health brigade team which provides community health services in Mapai district, Gaza province, Mozambique.

Communication for development

Applying social and behavioral science to promote the adoption and maintenance of positive behaviours

Tecla, 6 months, is weighed at a routine health care visit. Her mother, Bertha, is living with HIV, but was able to prevent transmission of the virus to her daughter.

HIV and AIDS

UNICEF is responding to the HIV epidemic, together with governments and partners, to achieve an AIDS-free generation.

Children wash their hands

Sanitation and hygiene

UNICEF works with governments to achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all

Young girls wash their hands at an EU-funded, UNICEF-supported water point in Somaliland.

Water and environment

UNICEF works with governments to achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all

Children running to go to the new classroom in secondary school of Berano, Madagascar.

Making domestic resources work better for children

Supporting governments to increase the transparency, value for money, equity and adequacy of investment in social sectors.

Mother and daughter

Ending child poverty

Supporting governments to monitor child poverty and scale-up cost-effective investment to accelerate progress.

Girl pupils in class at the UNICEF-assisted school in Dami internally displaced persons' camp, Hargeisa, Northwest Somalia ("Somaliland').

Gender equality

UNICEF works to empower girls and women, and to ensure their full participation in political, social, and economic systems.

Young people make their own radio programmes in Mozambique

Adolescent development, protection and participation

Supporting youth to break cycles of poverty, discrimination and violence.

Children in South Sudan smiling and laughing

Social protection

Investing in children is essential both for the socio-economic development of the region and for its political stability.