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10 September 2024

1 in 9 infant deaths in North Macedonia linked to air pollution

Skopje, 10 September 2024 – In the lead up to International Day of Clean Air, UNICEF in Europe and Central Asia released a new policy brief highlighting that more than 5,480 infants in 23 countries and territories across Europe and Central Asia died from causes linked to air pollution in 2021. In North Macedo...

Parental Guide for a Very Hot Summer

Parental Guide, Climate Change and Children, Human activity and the emission of the greenhouse gases into the atmosphere have already left a visible trace on our planet’s climate. The average temperature has risen by around  1.1 °C in the last 100 years, and each of the last four decades had been successively...

25 January 2024

Improving vaccine coverage requires reorganization of preventive health care for children

Skopje, 25 January 2024:  Today at an event to discuss the findings and preliminary policy recommendations of the functional and financial analysis of the vaccination services, as well as a study on needed investment in home visiting services, policy makers, health experts and partners concluded that there is...

15 December 2023

New vaccine campaign: “Let’s not play with our health!”

Skopje, 15 December 2023:  Under the slogan, “Let’s not play with our health” the Ministry of Health and UNICEF with support from USAID today launched a new phase of the “Protected together – vaccines work” campaign to continue to provide citizens with accurate and timely information on vaccines and immunizat...

05 October 2023

30 years and we won't stop

30 years for every child, This year UNICEF is marking its 30-year anniversary in North Macedonia. In 1993, UNICEF was one of the first two UN (United Nations) agencies to open an office in the country after it became an independent state - initially providing emergency assistance to refugee children from Bosnia an...

Demand and Quality of Home Visiting Services

In order to understand the demand for high-quality home visiting services/ patronage nurses (PN/HVN), provide insights on the most pressing needs for development of communication materials and guide development of a strategy to increase demand and improve the quality of home visiting services, TIM Institute, ESE A...

Protected Together – Routine Childhood Vaccines Work

Skopje, 26 April 2023: At the immunization point in the health polyclinic “Bukurest”, Deputy Minister of Health Dr Maja Manoleva, UNICEF Representative Patrizia DiGiovanni and National Professional Officer for Immunization, WHO Country Office Goran Kochinski marked the launch of the National campaign for routine c...

Protected together – routine childhood vaccines work

When it comes to their child, parents face many dilemmas, every day. But, when it comes to vaccination, there should be no dilemmas. Routine childhood vaccines are proven to be safe and effective and save 2 to 3 million children globally each year from deadly diseases. We all hope that our children will achieve am...

First web platform with information on health services and routine childhood immunization in one place

Skopje, 24 April 2023: Today the Ministry of Health and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched the E-Health platform which integrates all digitally available health services in one place and has a dedicated section on immunization, offering parents, caregivers and the general public a one-stop-shop f...

07 December 2022

Functional analysis of the patronage activity in the city of Skopje - health center Skopje

This functional analysis implemented in public sector institutions of the Republic of North Macedonia aims to provide a number of benefits for the institution where it was implemented. Some of the most significant benefits from the functional analysis process include: identification of institution’s adequate organ...

27 October 2022

Telemedicine pilot put into practice with new remote health monitoring devices

Skopje, 27 October 2022 - Today, the Ministry of Health put into practice a telemedicine pilot initiative after receiving from United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) fifty remote health monitoring devices that will allow doctors to conduct physical ex...

Family doctors advance their knowledge on telemedicine to help build a more resilient primary health care system

Skopje, 25 July 2022: UNICEF and the Ministry of Health in partnership with the Macedonian Medical Association are supporting a series of training workshops to build the knowledge and skills of family doctors in effective use of technology to deliver care at a distance. Telemedicine is the practice of medicine whe...