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Emergencies
See how UNICEF mobilizes life-saving supplies for children by working toward early recovery, long-term development and preparedness for the future.
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Timely delivery of the right products and services today can change children’s lives for a better tomorrow.
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Emergencies
The challenge, During humanitarian crises, children are especially vulnerable to disease, malnutrition and violence. While their needs are urgent, our work to reach them with assistance can be hindered by disrupted infrastructure and insecurity in conflicts or disasters, which threaten access to basic necessities ...
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UNICEF Supply Division
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Interagency Emergency Health Kit
The Interagency Emergency Health Kit (IEHK) provides life-saving medicines and medical supplies to meet the needs of children and communities in humanitarian emergencies. The kit is a vital component when UNICEF responds to emergencies around the world, including armed conflicts and natural disasters. These kits ...
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UNICEF’s pre-packed kits
UNICEF’s pre-packed kits play a critical role in delivering health essentials, as well as water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), protection and education supplies for children and families in low-resource contexts and amid humanitarian emergencies and crises. Using globally sourced supplies, these kits are rapidl...
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Vector control to prevent mosquito-borne diseases
For decades, UNICEF has led efforts to enhance the availability of and access to affordable and effective vector control products. These supplies are key to protecting children from malaria, dengue, Zika virus and an array of deadly diseases transmitted by mosquitos. Accounting for 17 per cent of all infectious il...
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Hugs, happiness and healing
Three-year-old Kubra pedals around happily on a bicycle, circling the child-friendly space she attends each day. Kubra and her father just crossed the border, returning to Afghanistan from Pakistan. Kubra’s father, Gulbuddin, was worried about Kubra’s mental health after the difficult journey. “It was a long and t...
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Products and services
The challenge, Supply chains in development and emergency contexts are among the most complex. Delivering supplies for the world’s most urgent needs is a challenge in under-resourced settings, conflict or disaster contexts and in places that are hard to reach. It requires technical expertise and local knowledge, i...
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UNICEF Supply Annual Report 2023
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Expanding access to a life-saving treatment
2-year-old Amira from Niger faced a harrowing battle for survival. As her parents struggled to buy enough food to feed a family of five, she became increasingly frail and was fighting for her life. “She suffered a lot because she didn’t eat at all. The few times she did, she ended up vomiting and was cranky”, says...
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Supply chains save lives
During the COVID-19 pandemic it became widely understood that strong supply chains have the power to save lives.Many countries face a myriad of challenges in their supply chain systems including limited data visibility, financing challenges, fragmented procurement processes, and limited warehousing, storage and di...
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Public Health Emergency Archetypes
Public health emergencies (PHEs) and, more specifically, infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics may differ dramatically in their scale, mode and speed of transmission, geographic distribution and affected populations, among other characteristics. These differences have important implications for efforts to ens...
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A blueprint for equity
The COVID-19 pandemic caught the world off guard. We were unprepared for the speed at which it spread and the severity of its impact – with millions of lives lost, a colossal economic fallout, and backsliding in essential public services, especially for children. Low- and middle-income countries were the hardest h...