I was born prematurely at seven months. The doctors told my mother that I probably wasn’t going to survive, so she left me in the hospital. At some point during my stay in the hospital I was given a blood transfusion. That was how I got HIV. When I was 14 days old my grandmother discovered I’d been born and came to get me. She has… Read more →←
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My name is Yana Panfilova. I am from Ukraine, and I was born with HIV, on 20 October 1997. Now I am a founder of Teenergizer, an organization for teenagers (including those who are HIV-positive), but during my childhood, I thought I would die. Neither my friends nor civil society in Ukraine knew much about HIV at the time. For the… Read more →←
Winners: Gerardo Saavedra and Emiliano Salmon Cannes Lions are the most established and coveted awards for the creative and marketing communications industry. The Young Lions Health Award was presented in partnership with UNICEF and UN Women to a team with the most innovative solution to a critical real-world issue affecting children… Read more →←
Gaps frustrate Omar Osman. As class president of Central Washington University, he sees the space fellow students put between their experience and his own, because he is a refugee. When he ran for school office, closing that distance was a crucial piece of his platform, and it is a message Osman has championed since his time in Kenya’s… Read more →←
At UNICEF, we know that the early moments of life offer an unparalleled opportunity to build the brains of the children who will build the future. In fact, there is no better time to invest in the development of the next generation than in the earliest years. But for parents to give their children the early stimulation, good nutrition,… Read more →←
This blog post was published on Thomson Reuters Foundation on 15 June 2018: http://news.trust.org/item/20180615113009-035p2/ Exeter, England, March 2018. Almost 2 pm. The bright red numbers of the digital clock on the wall left no room for doubt. The snow was falling harder and harder outside and I knew I was running out of time. Tamzin… Read more →←
I was six years old when I walked into the maternity ward with my father. My little sister was about to be born and I remember feeling excited and curious, but also anxious. I remember the people in the ward tending to new or soon-to-be mothers. The woman tending to my mother seemed to be the most remarkable of all, because she was there… Read more →←
While working in UNICEF offices in Africa and the Middle East, I understood the importance of securing essential commodities to improve children’s well-being. During my deployment in Liberia during the Ebola public health emergency, I saw the impact of water and sanitation supplies such as hygiene kits and chlorine, as well as the… Read more →←
For 15 years Daeng Xayaseng has been travelling by motorbike and on foot through rugged, undulating countryside to deliver vaccines to children in some of the most remote villages in Laos. It’s hard work but she is determined to protect children. “We have a target of children to reach and we’ll achieve that no matter how long it… Read more →←
When a child has access to clean drinking water close to home, they have a chance to go to school, to learn, to play with their friends and to have a childhood. Yet today, around 2.1 billion people don’t have access to safe water. Many children spend hours every day walking to collect water, sometimes missing out on a chance to go to… Read more →←
