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A young child receives a drop of oral vaccine

Health workers instrumental to immunization

Somalia commends on World Polio Day

Mother and baby

Somalia launches first national nutrition survey since 2009

Nutritional status of women and children improving but more needs to be done

e-learning tools help to ensure continuity of services in Somalia during the COVID-19 pandemic

Hero image - A lady using a sweing machine in Baidoa, Somalia

Survivors make masks to protect community against COVID-19

Empowered women are using their sewing skills to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in Somalia

Hero image- 8th grader Muna Abdirahman Mohamed, 14, participates in school lessons transmitted via radio across Somaliland

Radio and TV education kicks off in Somaliland

Free radio and TV lessons to give children an opportunity to continue learning

Measles outbreaks continue unabated

Five countries accounted for nearly half of all measles cases in 2018

mid, ten months malnourished child suffering from pneumonia is treated in Mofleh Pediatric Hospital in the province of Herat province, west of Afghanistan on January 29, 2019.

One child dies of pneumonia every 39 seconds, agencies warn

Pneumonia – a preventable disease – kills more children than any other infection

A child receives an oral vaccine

Immunizing every child

Cold chains play key role in delivering vaccines across Somalia

3 people clasp hands

Somaliland, Education Cannot Wait and UNICEF launch multi-year programme to provide education to more than 54,000 children affected by crises

Education Cannot Wait allocates $6.7 million in seed funding to launch $64 million three-year education programme for children

Farhia and her children

Families pushed to the brink as drought persists in Somalia

Once again, Somalia is facing a severe drought, threatening the lives of children across the country.