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COVID-19 continues to disrupt essential health services in 90 per cent of countries

Some signs of recovery emerging but major efforts required to restore and strengthen health services

A newborn baby girl born on 31 Dec 2018 lies in nursery at 22 May Hospital in Dolaa Hamdan, Sana'a Governorate. More than four years of armed conflict in Yemen have served to worsen the situation of women and children at birth within a country that was already the poorest in the Middle East and one of the world’s most impoverished even before the war escalated early in 2015.

12 November 2020

Severe pneumonia leaves 4.2 million children desperate for oxygen each year

30 September 2020

Remarks by Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, at the high-level side event on the ACT-Accelerator at the 75th session of UN General Assembly

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Child and mother

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

baby with pneumonia

Pneumonia vaccine price drops dramatically for lower-income countries thanks to the Gavi pneumococcal Advance Market Commitment

New supply agreement between UNICEF and Serum Institute of India (SII) makes pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) available at US$2.00 per dose, a 43 per cent reduction from the Gavi price at the start of the Advance Market Commitment

HPV vaccine manufacturers commit to provide enough supply to immunize at least 84 million girls in Gavi countries

On the eve of the Global Vaccine Summit 2020, five manufacturers commit to increasing and prioritising HPV vaccine supply to Gavi-supported countries, which have among the highest cervical cancer burdens in the world

A UNICEF chartered plane landed at Sana’a airport on Saturday 30 May with lifesaving supplies to help curb the spread of COVID-19 in Yemen

UNICEF airlifts essential supplies to respond to COVID-19 in Yemen as cases increase

Mother and baby in Côte d'Ivoire.

As COVID-19 devastates already fragile health systems, over 6,000 additional children under five could die a day, without urgent action

UNICEF launches #Reimagine, a global campaign to prevent the pandemic from becoming a lasting crisis for children

Supplies arrive at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria

Geneva Palais briefing note on the impact of COVID-19 mitigation measures on vaccine supply and logistics

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF spokesperson Marixie Mercado – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Supplies arrive at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria

COVID-19: Gavi and UNICEF to secure equipment and diagnostics for lower-income countries