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HIV: Impact on mental health & quality of life in time of COVID-19

Adolescence Health and nutrition HIV/Aids

By By UNICEF & partners

HIV: Impact on mental health & quality of life in time of COVID-19

As the coronavirus pandemic has unfurled across the world, the public health crisis has brought with it considerable social and economic aftershocks, which may be felt disproportionately by populations which are likely to be left behind.  Aside from the direct risks to physical health, the psychological impacts of COVID-19 also pose… Read more →←

Delivering for children in DPR Korea

Health and nutrition

By Simon Nazer

Delivering for children in DPR Korea

UNICEF-supported Child Health Days happen in DPR Korea twice a year with one simple aim: to deliver potentially life-saving interventions to 1.7 million children under 5. Good nutrition is the bedrock of child survival, health and development. Sadly, nearly a third of children under 5 in DPR Korea suffer from stunting while around… Read more →←

The Laos e-health pioneers

Health and nutrition

By Barry Bracken

The Laos e-health pioneers

Sing District in the North West corner of Laos is the very unlikely scene of a technological revolution. An office in Nakham village is full of community workers, health volunteers and local Village Chiefs. One-by-one each participant introduces themselves and their smartphones, and are then each given an SD card. We are witnessing an… Read more →←
School child with helmet

The traffic accident crisis

School child with helmet
Health and nutrition

By UNICEF EAPRO

The traffic accident crisis

It’s a shocking statistic: nothing kills more young men aged 15-29 than road traffic accidents. Three quarters of the estimated 1.2 million road deaths around the world each year involve men, and road accidents are the second biggest cause of disabilities and illness among adolescents. As I sit and write this in our office in Thailand,… Read more →←
School students in Fiji

World Water Day 2015: Water is Health

School students in Fiji
Water and sanitation

By Chander Badloe

World Water Day 2015: Water is Health

Water is health: that’s the key message of today’s World Water Day and something UNICEF has been promoting for many years. World Water Day is a fitting moment to reflect on the achievements made over the last decades in providing safe water and adequate sanitation and hygiene to communities all over the world. It also reminds us of… Read more →←
Daniel Toole

UNICEF’s Daniel Toole sees how disparity remains a challenge in rural China

Daniel Toole
Health and nutrition

By UNICEF EAPRO

UNICEF’s Daniel Toole sees how disparity remains a challenge in rural China

By Yang Jingjie, UNICEF China In mid-January, I travelled to Liangshan Yi Autonomous Region, an ethnic minority area in Sichuan Province, with Daniel Toole, UNICEF Regional Director for East Asia and the Pacific. The visit to the impoverished mountainous terrain of Liangshan was part of the preparations for UNICEF’s next five year plan… Read more →←
Daniel Toole visits children

Photos: Daniel Toole’s visit to rural China

Daniel Toole visits children
Health and nutrition

By UNICEF EAPRO

Photos: Daniel Toole’s visit to rural China

Daniel Toole, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Director, visited Liangshan Yi Autonomous Region, one of the most impoverished regions in China, to see how UNICEF is working with partners to help children and their families access basic services. Despite enormous economic growth in China pulling many out of poverty, there is still a… Read more →←
Chin Gipolio

Photos: Youth leaders fighting HIV

Chin Gipolio
Health and nutrition

By Simon Nazer

Photos: Youth leaders fighting HIV

Youth activists from across the region met in Bangkok this week, ahead of the Asia-Pacific Intergovernmental Meeting on HIV and AIDS. They discussed what efforts they want governments and others to make to help adolescents combat HIV and AIDS. UNICEF’s Simon Nazer caught up with some of the youth leaders to hear about their… Read more →←
Children leap into a lagoon in Tarawa, the capital.

A message from Samoa: “I’m in beautiful Samoa. It’s terrifying.”

Children leap into a lagoon in Tarawa, the capital.
Child protection

By UNICEF EAPRO

A message from Samoa: “I’m in beautiful Samoa. It’s terrifying.”

A message from Samoa by Karen Allen, UNICEF Pacific Representative I’m in beautiful Samoa. It’s terrifying Greetings from Samoa in the Pacific, the gracious host of a major global conference of small island states. To visit this beautiful nation is wonderful, but also terrifying. We, the big consumers of coal, oil and gas… Read more →←
An interactive session during the workshop helped participants to understand the importance of early essential newborn care.

A more promising future for new born babies in Mongolia

An interactive session during the workshop helped participants to understand the importance of early essential newborn care.
Health and nutrition

By Nabila Zaka

A more promising future for new born babies in Mongolia

The first three days of life are the most critical in ensuring the survival of new born babies. And although there have been significant improvements in maternal and child health in the last two decades in Mongolia, survival rates of new-born babies are not improving as fast as they must. Forty-two per cent of the 2,000 deaths annually… Read more →←
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