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Driving innovation in construction at UNICEF
Innovation is an important part of UNICEF’s mission to realize the rights of every child, especially the most excluded. UNICEF is a powerful force for social transformation and can help address a range of humanitarian challenges, including water and sanitation, health, education and child protection. Constructio...
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Fighting malaria with long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs)
Malaria is a life-threatening disease transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2019, there were 229 million recorded cases of malaria around the world, with 409,000 deaths from the disease. However, it is young children th...
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First COVID-19 COVAX vaccine doses administered in Africa
Geneva / New York / Oslo, 1 March 2021, – As the global rollout of COVAX vaccines accelerates, the first COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in Africa using COVAX doses began today in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. These campaigns are the among the first to use doses provided by the COVAX Facility’s Gavi COVAX Advanced Marke...
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Côte d'Ivoire becomes second African country and first French-speaking country to receive vaccine doses via COVAX Facility
ABIDJAN, Côte d'Ivoire, 26 February 2021, – The COVAX initiative shipped 504,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, licensed by the Serum Institute of India, to India, and 505,000 syringes to Abidjan, on 26 February 2021. This marks the second batch that has been shipped and delivered to Africa by the COVAX ...
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UNICEF begins shipping syringes for the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines under COVAX
NEW YORK, 23 February 2021, – UNICEF has sent 100,000 syringes and 1,000 safety boxes for COVID-19 vaccinations to the Maldives by air freight from UNICEF’s humanitarian warehouse in Dubai—part of the first wave of COVID-19-related syringe shipments to begin rolling out in the coming days. Others in the first wave...