As the 66th Commission on the Status of Women is about to start, we are joining our efforts to alert on the effects of disasters and climate change on Eastern and Southern Africa, and especially the d...
This paper argues that climate change is the greatest current and future threat to children’s care in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. Responding to this threat requires urgent coordinated acti...
UNICEF works on disaster risk reduction (DRR) in 150 countries. Child-responsive DRR prioritizes children and young people in the whole disaster management cycle, ensuring their individual and collect...
Oxygen is a life-saving medicine for the treatment of respiratory conditions, including in newborns and children. For example, in 2019, an estimated 7 million children under the age of five were admit...
In September 2022, adolescents (12-17 years old) were included in the COVID-19 vaccination program in Mozambique. The Government of Mozambique has administrated two doses of the Pfizer vaccine in scho...
Because of their disability, most people with hearing impairments lack formal education, therefore it is hard for them to access the common oral COVID-19 vaccine messages which are transmitted through...
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed real gaps in data on older people and a lack of prioritization of older people in traditional immunization systems, making it more difficult to include them in the r...
It is vital to ensure that everyone gets the right information through trusted sources and to bring COVID-19 vaccines to people with convenient service. UNICEF Kenya partnered with the InterReligious ...
Adolescents and young people in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR) experience many challenges and deprivations in terms of fulfilling their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR),...