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Press release

20 October 2020

TikTok and UNICEF MENA Come Together for the #MaskUp Campaign Across MENA

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Press release

More than 182,000 test kits to help fight COVID-19 in Iran

To be distributed among hospitals and laboratories under provincial medical universities admitting COVID-19 patients

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14 October 2020

Ted Chaiban, UNICEF MENA Regional Director's Closing Remarks at the Regional Ministerial Meeting on Back to Learning

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13 October 2020

Ted Chaiban, UNICEF MENA Regional Director's speech to WHO EMRO Regional Committee

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News note

08 October 2020

UN agencies launch “Learning is Back”, a song on return to learning in the Middle East and North Africa

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Statement

05 October 2020

On the occasion of World Teachers’ Day, ECW, GPE, UNESCO & UNICEF call for the resumption of salary payments for teachers for the coming school year in Yemen

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Press release

UNICEF brings 10 million doses of polio vaccine to Sudan

1 October 2020 - To be used during the National Polio Campaign

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Statement

11 September 2020

Joint Press Statement: Polio programme accelerates efforts to respond to new polio outbreaks in Sudan and Yemen

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