Health

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Health and nutrition

With our partners, we strengthen health systems, maximize immunization coverage and support policies.

31/10/2019

Campaign

84th Session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

The 84th extraordinary session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child will be held from 2 to 6 March in Apia, Samoa.

18/02/2020

On 2 December 2019, a nurse administers a measles vaccination to three-year-old Josh Vaituliano, in Leauvaa Village, as part of a National Vaccination Campaign in Samoa.

Statement

Effective outbreak response reduces the risk of measles spread in the Pacific

Joint WHO-UNICEF statement on Pacific measles situation

20/01/2020

Mitieli Digitaki was one of the first babies of 2020. Born to Laisani Raisili in Suva at ten minutes after midnight in Fiji, Mitieli weighed 2.9 kg and is in good health.

Press release

New Year’s Babies: News of hope to welcome the new decade in Samoa

In 2020, UNICEF is calling for world leaders and nations to invest in health workers with the know-how and equipment to save every newborn

02/01/2020

On 3 December 2019, Nurse Manager James administers a measles vaccination to three-year-old Janele, at Poutasi District Hospital on the island of Upolu in Samoa, during a UNICEF-supported National Vaccination Campaign in response to the current measles outbreak in the Pacific region.

Press release

Measles outbreaks continue unabated : Five countries accounted for nearly half of all measles cases in 2018

Children in Samoa are latest victims of 2019 outbreaks

08/12/2019

UNICEF has delivered six 42 sqm tents, which will be used as vaccination sites or isolation wards for patients with measles.

Press release

News Note 2: Pacific Measles Outbreak

28/11/2019

Prime Minister of Fiji, Hon. Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama and children, at the signing of the global pledge to recommit to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Press release

30 years of child rights: Children in the Pacific islands join with governments on World Children’s Day

Urgent action and a recommitment to child rights needed to address age-old and emerging threats

20/11/2019

A boy receives a measles vaccination at a temporary clinic in Lalomanu, a village on the eastern coast of Upolu, one of Samoa’s two main islands.

Press release

News Note 1: Pacific Measles Outbreak

UNICEF supporting the Government of Samoa respond to the outbreak.

18/11/2019

Dorcas Galo, 14 months, is held by her mother, Belinda, as nurse Glenda Rathamana explains the importance of good nutrition, at the UNICEF-supported Pikinini Clinic in Honiara, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.

Report

The State of the World’s Children 2019

Growing well in a changing world - Pacific Islands

10/11/2019

A end of the school year celebration on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu.

Campaign

Convention on the Rights of the Child

For every child, every right

10/11/2019

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