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The right choice of a syringe
The auto-disable (AD) syringes UNICEF will deliver to support COVID-19 vaccination have an additional mission: to help p...
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Transporting 1 billion syringes to the world
The word unprecedented will always be associated with 2020.
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UNICEF begins shipping syringes for the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines under COVAX
100,000 syringes will arrive in Maldives, with more countries to receive imminent deliveries for rollout of COVAX Facili...
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Big Problems Need Big Solutions
We reached more than 760 million children with life-saving vaccines over the last 20 years, and helped prevent more than...
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A firsthand account from the hours after Beirut's explosion
Jackeline Atwi's niece was missing. As she desperately tried to find her, hope was running low.
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Hunger Relief - Malnutrition
Hunger and malnutrition deprive children of essential nutrients, making them susceptible to severe versions of common si...
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Hunger Relief - Water Lilies
Nine-month-old Baby Chiengjiuk lives in Bentiu camp for displaced people in South Sudan.
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Hunger Relief - Grass
Nyabel Wal travelled for six days to look for food, only to come back empty-handed. With no other options, she’s been fo...
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5 Things You Should Know About Malnutrition
Childhood malnutrition affects more than 229 million kids worldwide. It's a triple threat which includes undernutrition,...
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Would you go this far to help children?
UNICEF Health Worker Paul Maesiala travels on a boat for three hours to reach children in remote Solomon Islands.
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Displacement leaves its traces on health and nutrition of children in Cabo Delgado
Mossa is the only father in the group. He has come today with his four children: “I wanted to give their mother a break ...
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Former refugee Robel Teklay knows what it means to be hungry
Robel talks to UNICEF NZ about growing up with precious little food in Sudan and his journey to New Zealand
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What families eat for breakfast around the world.
Some breakfasts are hot, some are cold. Here’s what breakfast looks like for children in 10 countries around the world.
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How little Adut beat malnutrition
From not being able to stand by herself, to walking again on her own - this is Adut's 8 week journey to recovery.
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It is an ambitious goal – to end global hunger by 2030
Are we on track?
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How do you deliver vaccines during a pandemic?
Vivien Maidaborn is used to fielding unusual questions. But this was a question even she hadn’t heard before.
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Six ways UNICEF is helping children after the explosions in Beirut
Here's what we're doing to help children in Beirut.
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"What a time to deliver a baby!"
On the day Khalid held his oldest daughter for the first time, there was an explosion close to the hospital where she wa...
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Concern for wellbeing of children following explosions in Beirut
UNICEF concerned children among the casualties after massive explosion in Beirut.
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Breastfeeding during coronavirus
An interview with nutrition expert at UNICEF South Asia
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Inside one of Yemen's few operational hospitals
Only half of Yemen's health centres are functional. We went inside one of the main hospitals in Sana'a.
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One Love single featuring Māori singer released worldwide
Māori soul singer TEEKS features on new version of One Love launched by members of the Marley family.
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Yemen's children 'want peace'
Aussie aid worker Harriet Dwyer wants to remind people that Yemeni children can truly flourish with the right support.
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UNICEF New Zealand and Bybit launch partnership
An innovative partnership to help children in greatest need
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Samoa better prepared for Covid-19 after measles outbreak
Reflections six months after the measles outbreak that killed 83 people.
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Kane Williamson goes to bat for clean water and soap
"We can make a huge difference to people's lives by giving them access clean water and soap."
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COVID-19: A double emergency
COVID-19 is bringing a new threat to already battered countries – and makes delivering life-saving assistance even harde...
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Global leaders come together to raise $13.6b for vaccines
Enough money to immunise 300 million children.
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Millions of children at risk as Covid-19 impacts nutrition, education and vaccines
Covid-19 has impacted access to vaccines, education, and exacerbated issues around food shortages.
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Hand washing around the world
The simple act of hand washing is the best protection we have against Covid-19.
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Yemeni children face fighting a virus in a war zone
After more than five years of conflict, families in Yemen now face the threat of a deadly pandemic without even the most...
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Protecting Pacific Kids from Covid-19
As Covid-19 spreads around the world, communities in the Pacific are desperately preparing to respond to the imminent th...
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Snaps of Covid-19 lockdown life with children from around the world
Photographers in countries around the world are at home with their families – these are their photos.
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Through pandemics and epidemics, UNICEF has been there (and will be there)
For more than 70 years, we have been working to improve the lives of children and their families.
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The difference soap and water can make in a refugee camp
As Covid-19 spreads around the world, water and soap are more important than ever before. But what if you didn’t have ac...
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New Zealand commits $5m to UNICEF to support Indonesia’s Covid-19 response
NZ govt pledges $5 million to protect Indonesia against Covid-19.
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Child mortality rate set to increase for first time in decades without urgent action
The COVID-19 pandemic is fast becoming a lasting crisis for children.
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Pregnant mothers and babies born during Covid-19 pandemic under threat
With 116 million expected births in the approximately 9 months since the Covid pandemic was recognised, UNICEF calls on ...
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Six inspirational stories about mothers around the world
As COVID-19 continues to turn our lives upside down, Mother’s Day will look a little different.
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Vaccines and the diseases they prevent
Find out more about the most commonly recommended vaccines.
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A day in the life of a vaccinator in Mali
Going the distance to reach every child, no matter where they live.
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The lengths to which health workers go to reach every child with vaccines
Vaccines can prevent disease outbreaks now and in the future.
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Routine vaccinations must continue – UNICEF
As COVID-19 has continued to spread globally, more than 117 million children in 37 countries may miss out on receiving t...
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World Immunisation Week 2020
Find out how vaccines keep your child and community safe.
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In the race to fight against Covid-19, UNICEF's supply chains are working 24/7
The Covid-19 pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on global supply chains. UNICEF is developing innovative solutio...
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Pacific islands face two crises at once
Not only must the region protect its people from the deadly coronavirus pandemic, it has to also recover from a second w...
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What will COVID-19 mean for the Pacific?
"It's even more important that we continue to support children in these communities."
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How children around the world are adapting to life under COVID-19
Children and parents around the world are making a new normal
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Covid-19 is devastating Italy
But rainbows offer a ray of hope all over the country. “Andrà tutto bene"
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Almost 5 million children born into war in Syria
As the conflict enters its 10th year, millions of children are entering their second decade of life surrounded by war, v...
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Hitching a ride aboard a flying, lifesaving vaccine delivery
UNICEF Pacific Chief of Comms Cate Heinrich flew aboard a lifesaving vaccine delivery to Samoa last November.
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“Covid-19 is clearly not a virus that anybody in the world will have immunity to.”
Doctor Nikki Turner
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In photos: how vaccines reach the most remote places on earth
No child too far.
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A Syrian family's journey to the safety of New Zealand
Four years ago, Ramia Saidawi left Syria, with her husband and two girls, for a life of safety in New Zealand
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A Kiwi view of the world's largest refugee camp
My bags and I are heading to Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh - the largest refugee settlement in the world
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A long walk and a longer wait
Three-year-old Nur has been vomiting for three days, with severe diarrhoea, and now his father watches him, wondering if...
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A celebration of change in tropical Kiribati
Of every 1000 children under five in Kiribati, 47 will die, often from entirely preventable causes. But that's changing.
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A family's journey from Syria to Libya
Eight-year-old Bassam and his family have been running from war for five years, only to have it chase them every step of...
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Unicef Heroes: Fighting Sickness With Donkey Power
An unusual ally has been enlisted in the fight against polio in the war-torn mountains of Yemen: Donkeys
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Vaccines are a lifesaver in NZ and the world
New Zealand still isn’t immune from outbreaks of disease, and a lack of vaccination can still be a death sentence for ki...
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Violence And Displacement Stalk Children In Raqqa
As violence escalates in the Syrian region of Raqqa, families have been fleeing their homes to poorly equipped temporary...
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"We can't run from the war and then die from the cold"
Syrian children have been fighting to survive war, hunger, poverty and disease. But now they are fighting to survive the...
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Why We Won't Stop Fighting For Children
Every day we see the very worst of what people can do to one another, and the very worst conditions that people are forc...
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Winter In Syria: A Mother's Worst Nightmare
Iman fled the war in Syria with her four children, but just when she thought they were safe – they faced a threat they c...
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Watch: Two generations of refugee children. One emotional childhood
Meet Ahmed and Harry.
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A Week Following Children On The Move
Marie-Pierre Poirier recently travelled the migrant route through the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and ...
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As fighting takes place down the road, families return to rural Syria
Some Syrian families are attempting to live in relative normality, as fighting takes place down the road
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Black Ferns lift the lid on UNICEF's sport-in-a-box kits
The foreign object is a UNICEF sport-in-a-box kit. It’s the key ingredient in a new partnership between the Black Ferns ...
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Breastfeeding is 'easy, healthy and cost-effective'
Baby Luthfi was born just six days after the dual disasters that devastated Indonesia. His mother was feeding him with f...
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UPDATE: Vanuatu Schools - first toilet blocks completed
Most of the schools in Penama Province, Vanuatu, do not have toilets and there are some obvious health risks for childre...
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Bringing baby Adaline's appetite back to life
Adaline has been sent home with a months-long course of Plumpy’Nut® – a peanut-based nutritional paste - that can return...
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This peanut paste has changed the world
It’s not your ordinary peanut butter from the supermarket. It’s called Plumpy’nut®, also known as Ready-to-Use Therapeut...
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After eruption on Ambae, UNICEF is helping build new lives
In 2017 the Manaro volcano, on Vanuatu’s Ambae Island, started to erupt. Within days, the island’s residents were evacua...
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Simple steps to a brighter future
By improving access to water, we’re improving children’s health and education.
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Helping Children In Timor-Leste Get The Best Start In Life
It’s hard to be a child in Timor-Leste. New Zealanders are helping to change that.
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The Pacific Workers Coming To New Zealand To Help Their Families Back Home
Meet 31-year-old Michael Leo from Vanuatu. He works on an Orchard in Hawke's Bay to help his wife and two children back ...
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The Pacific Women Walking A Slippery Slope
Throughout the world more than 663 million people live without a safe water supply close to home. Many of our Pacific ne...
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