COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh – The Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar refugee camps are as worried about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as billions of other people around the world. So are Bangladeshi families living near the settlement, which is home to some 850,000 Rohingya refugees displaced from neighbouring Myanmar. They…

ROME/NEW YORK, 29 April 2020 – As the COVID-19 crisis pushes up levels of hunger among the global poor, the World Food Programme and UNICEF are urging national governments to prevent devastating nutrition and health consequences for the 370 million children missing out on school meals amid school closures. “For millions of children around the…

Text, Initiative launched by the EU, GRULAC and Members of the Group of Friends of Children and the SDGs* We strongly support the appeal by the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres for countries to prioritize children’s education, food, health and safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In this regard, we welcome the release of the Policy Brief…, Learn more about children and the SDGs during COVID-19

KATHMANDU, 28 April 2020 – South Asia could face yet another health emergency if children across the region do not receive their life-saving vaccine shots, UNICEF warned today. Almost a quarter of the world’s unimmunized or partially immunized children—about 4.5 million children—live in South Asia. Almost all of them, or 97 per cent, live in India…

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Evidence generation is a critical component of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, mitigation measures will have a negative impact in nutrition information systems. This guidance provides recommendations on ways to find practical innovative approaches for the collection, analysis and management of nutrition data and information without…

Nearly 1.5 billion children – more than ninety per cent of the world’s learners – are impacted due to school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. This joint guidance from FAO, UNICEF and WFP guides countries on how to maintain the continuity of school nutrition programmes, including school feeding in the context of the pandemic. Download file (…

Mitigation measures are critical during the pandemic to ensure malnourished children continue to have access to nutritious foods and essential nutrition services.This brief provides guidance on the management of child wasting in the context of COVID-19 where there are no mobility restrictions and where there are partial or full mobility…

This brief published by UNICEF, Global Technical Assistance Mechanism for Nutrition (GTAM), and the Global Nutrition Cluster provides recommendations and key considerations for infant and young child feeding in the context of COVID-19 in home settings. Download file (PDF, 196,63 KB)

GENEVA, 28 April 2020 – Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has urgently made US$ 40 million available to UNICEF to secure personal protective equipment (PPE), diagnostic tests and other vital supplies on behalf of 58 low and lower-middle-income countries as they respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, Gavi has made up to US$ 200 million available to…