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Community health volunteers

An adolescent community health worker in her medical jacket poses for a photo.
Programme
06 August 2019
Community health
Community health programmes bring critical services to the world’s hardest-to-reach children.
Document
13 December 2021
National Georeferenced Community Health Worker Master List H

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Child and mother
Press release
08 September 2020
COVID-19 could reverse decades of progress toward eliminating preventable child deaths, agencies warn
With the number of under-five deaths at an all-time recorded low of 5.2 million in 2019, disruptions in child and maternal health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic are putting millions of additional lives at stake
Child vaccination Indonesia
Press release
15 July 2020
WHO and UNICEF warn of a decline in vaccinations during COVID-19
WHO and UNICEF call for immediate efforts to vaccinate all children as new data shows that, before the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine coverage stalled at 85 per cent for nearly a decade, with 14 million unvaccinated infants yearly
Vaccines Colombia
Press release
22 May 2020
At least 80 million children under one at risk of diseases such as diphtheria, measles and polio as COVID-19 disrupts routine vaccination efforts, warn Gavi, WHO and UNICEF
Agencies call for joint effort to safely deliver routine immunization and proceed with vaccination campaigns against deadly vaccine-preventable diseases.
News note
28 November 2019
UNICEF delivers over 260,000 vaccines and medical supplies to fight measles outbreaks in Samoa, Fiji and Tonga
Delivers 115,500 doses of measles vaccines to worst-affected Samoa
A health worker looks on as a new mother holds her baby to her chest, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Press release
03 June 2019
World not delivering quality maternal health care to poorest mothers - UNICEF
Millions of mothers at risk due to prohibitive health care costs, lack of access to services and skilled professionals, and child marriage
Astana signing
Press release
24 October 2018
New global commitment to primary health care for all at Astana conference
Declaration of Astana charts course to achieve universal health coverage, 40 years since declaration on primary health care in Alma-Ata
A mother holds her newborn baby, Pakistan
Article
04 October 2018
It takes a village: Saving newborn lives in Pakistan
In a region with high newborn mortality rates, training all the local health workers in the community is saving lives.
South African mother and her baby.
Press release
03 October 2018
Media advisory: Global conference on primary health care
World Leaders to declare historic commitment to primary health care and health for all in Astana between 25-26 October 2018