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An adolescent community health worker in her medical jacket poses for a photo.

Community health

Community health programmes bring critical services to the world’s hardest-to-reach children.

Child and mother

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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New roadmap to prevent and treat tuberculosis in children and adolescents

In 2017, almost one million children fell ill and over 200,000 children under 15 died of tuberculosis