Tag Archives: Unicef

United Nations | Xinhua | Measles cases spiked around the world in the first two months of 2022, triggering worries about even larger outbreaks, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Wednesday. Almost 17,338 measles cases were reported worldwide in January and February 2022, compared with …

New York, USA | THE INDEPENDENT | Catherine Russell took office this week as UNICEF’s new Executive Director, becoming the fourth woman to lead the organization in its 75-year history. “It is an honor and a privilege to join UNICEF and help lead its remarkable work for children at such …

Is Education ministry aborting morality to please donors? Kampala, Uganda | MUBATSI ASINJA HABATI | Two weeks before Uganda ended the longest school closure in the world owing to outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Education and Sports instructed all primary and secondary schools to allow pregnant students to …

Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 1.5 million children are not receiving life-saving treatment for severe wasting in Eastern and Southern Africa, UNICEF has warned in a statement released on Friday. The number represents almost half of the estimated 3.6 million children in urgent need, who are not …

UK, Ireland and UNICEF support COVID-19 fight in schools | THE INDEPENDENT | As schools in Uganda reopen after a prolonged period, the UK and Ireland have partnered with UNICEF to support two key activities which aim to support safe and sustainable reopening. The focus will be on school-based surveillance …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Despite the rise of the highly transmissible Omicron COVID-19 variant, nationwide school closures should be avoided whenever possible, the Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Henrietta Fore has said. The new cases are being fuelled, increasingly, by Omicron, the new variant of concern …

United Nations | Xinhua | Globally, around three in 10 people, or 2.3 billion, do not have handwashing facilities with water and soap available at home, said the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday. The situation is worst in the least developed countries, with over six in 10 people without access …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Speaker Jacob Oulanyah has tasked Members of Parliament on the Uganda Parliamentary Forum for Children to develop and present the legislative agenda for children for the next five years. Oulanyah was on Friday speaking at the orientation workshop for MPs on the forum at Lake …

Time has come to highlight that adequate water, sanitation and hygiene are essential components of basic preventive health services as these are primary drivers of public health COMMENT | By Fatima Maada Bio | Access to handwashing with soap is a foundational component of healthy schools. Good hygiene practices help ensure …

Kinshasa, DRC | Xinhua |  The UN children’s fund, UNICEF, said Saturday in a statement that it is working with health authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after a new Ebola case was reported in the northeastern part of the country. DRC’s government confirmed late Friday that …