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Health and Nutrition
UNICEF helps to improve healthcare services that can respond promptly to the needs of Venezuelan children and adolescents.
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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...
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"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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...