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Robert Matthews, head of the Medical Devices Unit within the Health Technology Centre at UNICEF Supply Division

COVAX: “It is about the collective well-being”

Meet our experts – Robert Matthews, head of the Medical Devices Unit in UNICEF Supply Division, talks about his work to get syringes and safety boxes ready

world mask week

Medical masks during the COVID-19 pandemic

To support countries in their response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, UNICEF has shipped over 200 million medical masks since January 2020.

COVAX announces new agreement, plans for first deliveries

COVAX announced the signing of an advance purchase agreement with Pfizer for up to 40 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine candidate.

UNICEF staff support the delivery of a special charter of vaccines at Nouakchott airport, Mauritania in June 2020.

Getting COVID-19 vaccines to West and Central Africa

How UNICEF is harnessing decades of expertise to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to the region.

Two nurses wearing PPE prepare to immunize children in Kosovo, July 2020.

New fund to support equitable access to COVID-19 supplies

Contributions are welcome to ensure global equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments and vaccines.

Etleva Kadilli, Director of Supply Division at the Division's headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. 13 November, 2020.

Meet Etleva Kadilli, Director of UNICEF Supply Division

The head of UNICEF Supply Division talks about the challenges and opportunities in the work for equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

Ensuring global equitable access to COVID-19 health supplies

Together with partners, UNICEF is working to ensure countries have safe, fast and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.

COVID-19 vaccine dashboard illustration

UNICEF launches the COVID-19 vaccine market dashboard

A UNICEF staff member during the unloads of the 73 tons of supplies to combat COVID-19, at the Venezuela’s main airport in Ausgust, 2020 in Caracas, Venezue

UNICEF and the World Economic Forum sign charter with 18 shipping, airlines and logistics companies to deliver COVID-19 vaccines

UNICEF health worker carries cold boxes containing vaccines to a pick-up truck ahead of a rural vaccination drive in Koch county, in Bentiu, South Sudan, May 2017.

UNICEF outlining plans to transport up to 850 tonnes of COVID-19 vaccines per month on behalf of COVAX, in ‘mammoth and historic’ logistics operation

UNICEF – in partnership with Gavi and WHO – is also helping low- and lower-middle-income countries prepare to receive COVID-19 vaccines in 2021