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Unicef Appeals For Funds To Fight Severe Cholera Outbreak In Angola

With 1,000 people already dead from cholera in Angola, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is appealing for $1 million to fight the most severe outbreak of the disease there since 1988.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 11:18 — admin

Deworming Campaign Launched in Afghanistan by World Food Programme, UNICEF, and WHO

WFP has announced the launch of the 2005 national deworming campaign. The government campaign, which aims to improve the health and intellectual development of six million children across Afghanistan, is also being supported by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO).


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:58 — admin

Niger‘s Desperate Needs: Calls for 60,000 Tons of Food and How You Can Contribute

Drought and the worst invasion of crop-devouring locusts in 5 years have compounded an already fragile food situation in Niger, threatening up to 3.5 million people, more than a third of the total population.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:53 — admin

French government donates life-saving supplies for people in Niger

As the United Nations Children’s Fund moves quickly to expand its emergency response to the food shortage crisis in Niger, the French Government has donated to the agency some 1.7 tons of essential drugs and other life-saving supplies to help save tens of thousands of children and their families facing starvation.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:51 — admin

C8, Children for Change, UNICEF Participants Express Their Views on G8 Decisions

UNICEF provided a platform so children can express their views on the issues being debated and decisions made at the G8.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:43 — admin

On Eve of G8, Children from all Over the World Make Urgent Plea to Leaders to Make Child Poverty History

Scottish First Minister, Jack McConnell, today joined young people from both the northern and southern hemispheres to hear their views and receive recommendations on what they think the G8 leaders need to do make child poverty history.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:42 — admin

UNICEF Releases "State of the World's Children" Report

The State of the World's Children 2004 focuses on girls' education and its relationship to all other development goals and to the promise of Education For All.


Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:13 — admin

Control of vitamin A deficiency

Initially launched as a multi-faceted vision research project in the mid-1970s, data that became available indicated the value of developing an intervention program that would not only prevent blindness, but reduce childhood (and we now know maternal) morbidity and mortality in developing countries.


Thu, 10/20/2011 - 08:23 — admin

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