16 November 2020

Red Cross volunteers conduct door to door campaign for COVID-19 awareness

The door-to-door campaign which was commissioned by the Ministry of Health and supported by WHO and UNICEF has reached over 15000 people with COVID-19 messages through Red Cross volunteers and will continue intensifying the education component of the EFTTIT approach, a six-point strategy which was adopted by the M...
04 November 2020

Eswatini launches social and behavioral campaign to usher in the new normal

The Government of Eswatini has launched a social and behavioural change campaign to usher in the new normal as part of COVID-19 prevention. The campaign developed by the Risk Communication and Community Engagement technical working group under the leadership of the Ministry of Health with technical and financial ...
29 July 2020

WHO and UNICEF support refresher training for 60 Red Cross volunteers

The COVID-19 Risk Communication and Community Engagement Technical Working Group conducted a refresher training for 60 Red Cross volunteers with support from WHO and UNICEF. The initial training was conducted after identifying the need to engage and sensitize people from Manzini on COVID-19 prevention as numerous ...
02 July 2020

Ministry of Health commissions Red Cross volunteers for Manzini gate-to-gate campaign on COVID-19

The Ministry of Health in collaboration with partners including WHO, UNICEF, EGPAF, Manzini Town Council and Red Cross officially commissioned a group of 60 Red Cross volunteers who will engage residents of Manzini on COVID-19 prevention. The commissioning follows a training of the group by the Risk Communication ...
02 July 2020

UNICEF supports training of Red Cross volunteers on COVID-19

The Ministry of Health with support from UNICEF, WHO and other partners has trained a group of 60 Red Cross volunteers who will engage in targeted gate-to-gate community engagement in the Manzini region. The Risk Communication team conducted the training as an intervention to try and address the issue of escalatin...
02 July 2020

Life Mentors trained on COVID-19

The Government of Eswatini and Lusweti Institute for Health and Development communication in partnership with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are currently implementing an adolescent programme which aims at empowering adolescents on sexual and reproductive health issues, HIV and violence prevention. A re...
02 July 2020

Silver lining in the era of COVID19 in Eswatini

“The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted our way of life and more particularly interrupted our access to education. I am very grateful to the Ministry of Education and Training for their concern about our education and providing us with a new opportunity to learn through radio, TV and newspapers as we prepare for ...
20 May 2020

UNICEF partners with Ministry of Health and Lusweti to educate adolescents on COVID-19

UNICEF, the Ministry of Health- Sexual Reproductive Health Unit and Lusweti Institute for Health have partnered to implement an adolescent project titled RISE. This is an HIV prevention program targeting 2500 adolescents and 1000 parents in two Tinkhundla being Madlangempisi and Matsanjeni North. The project start...
20 May 2020

UNICEF supports sensitization of adolescents on prevention of HIV and COVID-19

UNICEF in partnership with Super Buddies Club, Ministry of Health Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) unit and Save the Children support Community Adolescent Treatment Supporters (CATS) who work in communities to provide information to adolescents on HIV prevention and treatment in order to ensure that adolescents are empowered and resilient to…
09 May 2020

UNICEF hands over dignity packs to children and women in incarceration

UNICEF Eswatini continues to ensure that no child is left behind, even during the COVID -19 response. Children in incarceration are often forgotten yet because of the confined conditions in which they live, they are more vulnerable to contracting the Coronavirus disease. UNICEF in collaboration with UNDP, donated...
09 May 2020

UNICEF supports hygiene facilities at Lubombo Referral Hospital

To improve hygiene in health facilities currently providing support to COVID-19 patients, UNICEF in collaboration with MoH Environmental Health Department has undertaken an initiative for mobilising the needed showers for the referral hospital designated for COVID19 treatment. UNICEF has provided for three mobil...
09 May 2020

Equipping the Community Health System to Respond to COVID-19 in Eswatini

Eswatini is currently tackling the global health pandemic COVID-19, through all platforms in the health sector. UNICEF Eswatini provided technical and financial support to training of 692 Lead Rural Health Motivators (community health volunteers) from the Ministry of Health. The Lead RHMs support over 4,000 volunt...