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Female Village Health Workers with backpacks and backs turned to camera in Zimbabwe

Village Health Workers Key to Non-Communicable Disease Care in Zimbabwe

UNICEF works to increase support and understanding of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in childhood in low- and middle-income countries.
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For more than 36 years, medical nurse Jiydegul Rysbaeva has traveled on horseback across the Jon-Bulak Valley, Kyrgyzstan, delivering lifesaving vaccines and care to children and families on farmsteads across the region.

Delivering Measles Vaccines on Horseback in Kyrgyzstan

Dedicated health workers go the distance to keep children safe from disease outbreaks. [video]
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A malnourished child eats Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food after being screened and diagnosed at the UNICEF-supported mobile clinic in Dhamar, Yemen.

Hope on Wheels: UNICEF Mobile Teams Save Lives in Yemen

UNICEF-supported mobile teams deliver essential health and nutrition services directly to families in remote parts of Yemen. More help is needed.
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On July 29, 2024, a severely malnourished child is fed ready-to-use therapeutic food at the UNICEF-supported Payuer Nutrition Center in Renk county, South Sudan.

Foreign Aid Funding Cuts Harm the World's Children

At least 14 million children are expected to face disruptions to essential nutrition support and services in 2025 because of global funding cuts.
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In June 2023, Mariam, a Sudanese refugee from the town of Tendelti, collects water from a borehole installed by UNICEF in the village of Koufroun, eastern Chad.

With Guinea Worm Eradication in Sight, a Celebration of a Humanitarian Legacy

In the 1980s, UNICEF and partners took on Guinea worm, a debilitating parasitic disease. Joining them in that fight: former President Jimmy Carter.
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Kids in Abidjan, southern Côte d'Ivoire, participate in a community event on World Children's Day 2024.

10 Ways Investing in Children’s Well-Being Changed the World

Here are 10 major advances that UNICEF and partners helped make possible.
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In the drought-stricken Afar region of north-eastern Ethiopia, 16-year-old Fatuma, leans against the white board in her classroom. She is in school instead of in an early marriage thanks to child protection programs supported by UNICEF.

Foreign Aid Is Critical to the Well-Being of Millions of Children

Support from the private sector — including individual donors — is needed more than ever to keep important humanitarian and development work going.
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In Port-au-Prince on Jan. 27, 2025, UNICEF Global Spokesperson James Elder interacts with students during a visit to a school that UNICEF and partners relocated from La Saline in 2023, after students got caught up in a clash between two armed groups.

Dispatch From Haiti: What Children Need Most

Multiple threats to children include recruitment into armed groups. What UNICEF is doing to deliver urgently needed support, protection and hope.
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In North Gaza, a smiling boy sits in his new wheelchair, delivered by UNICEF.

UNICEF Delivers Wheelchairs for Gaza's Children

The Gaza Strip now has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world. Here's how to help UNICEF reach more children in need. [video]
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