28 April 2025

Protecting adolescent girls in reaching their full potential and well-being

In 2023, UNICEF and UNFPA Venezuela signed a joint programme to ensure universal access to primary health care for adolescent girls to help them reach their full potential and protect their well-being. The interventions under the joint programme aim at reducing maternal and neonatal mortality, improving mental hea...
18 October 2024

"We have managed to reduce the incidence of diseases that were previously fatal in children"

The Lower Delta area is part of the Antonio Díaz municipality, in the state of Delta Amacuro. It is one of the most remote and hard-to-reach locations in Venezuela and is also home to thousands of Warao indigenous people. "It is one of the municipalities most affected by all the nutritional conditions, as well as ...
17 October 2024

Life-saving communication: Innovative radio system improves maternal and child care in communities

The Lower Delta, in the state of Delta Amacuro, is characterized by a complex network of streams through which the Orinoco River flows towards the Atlantic Ocean and whose portions of land are inhabited by small Indigenous villages that live surrounded by nature and also have difficulties in accessing basic servic...
30 November 2023

UNICEF Venezuela Annual Report 2022

The year 2022 was marked by a special date for UNICEF in Venezuela: the celebration of 55 years of presence in the country. There have been decades of effort to guarantee the strengthening of the rights of children and adolescents, hand in hand with government institutions, civil society, citizens and the children...
26 April 2023

What you need to know about vaccines

Vaccines are products that are administered to protect against serious diseases that can be deadly. These stimulate the body's natural defenses, preparing it to fight diseases more quickly and effectively. They help the immune system fight infections more efficiently, as they provoke an immune response to specific...
13 February 2023

UNICEF approves a new Cooperation Program with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) approved a new cooperation program with the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for the period 2023-2026, to advance the fulfillment of the rights of children and adolescents. The approval of the cooperation program was completed during the first ordinary ...
25 March 2022

Millions of Children Save their Lives thanks to Vaccines

Caracas, December 2, 2021., - The United Nations Fund for infants, UNICEF, and the Ministry of Popular Power for Health, make a call to all parents and caretakers to, despite the pandemic, take their children to get their proper vaccinations against tuberculosis, hepatitis b, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping c...
24 March 2022

Vaccinate children to keep them more protected

As data from the World Health Organization and UNICEF, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused an important setback in childhood vaccination throughout the world, causing that, in 2020, around 23 million boys and girls did not receive basic vaccines; 3.7 million more than in 2019. If every child gets their shots on time,...
24 March 2022

Right to Health

The right to health is contemplated in article, 24, of the, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), , which states the following:, Article 24, 1. States Parties recognize the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to services for the treatment of disease and reh...
24 March 2022

55 years in Venezuela for the rights of children and adolescents

logtema del 55 aniversario de UNICEF en Venezuela, UNICEF, is the, United Nations Children's Fund, and works tirelessly in more than 191 countries for the rights of children, especially the most vulnerable. The origin of, UNICEF, dates back to the time after the Second World War, when millions of children suffered...
07 February 2022

UNICEF supports the rehabilitation of the hospital boat for the most vulnerable children

Delta Amacuro (VENEZUELA)., - On the banks of the Orinoco River, in the heart of Delta Amacuro, more than 40,000 people live. This is one of the most vulnerable states in Venezuela, with 70% of its inhabitants living in extreme poverty. Most of them are indigenous to the Warao ethnic group. 97% of the population d...
13 December 2021

Vaccination is the best option for preventing illness in children

More than 100 kilometres from Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, is the community of Mamporal in Barlovento, Miranda state. In this settlement is a community clinic where local inhabitants gathered for a mass vaccination day for children and pregnancy mothers. “Some children are afraid of getting vaccinated, but others...