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On 3 March 2021, 102,000 Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are unloaded in Rwanda, the first African country to receive the Pfizer vaccines through COVAX.

COVAX COVID-19 Vaccine Deliveries Ramp Up in Africa & SE Asia

What promises to be the largest, fastest and most complex vaccination campaign in history is picking up steam as UNICEF delivers COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility around the world.

How friendship saved a girl from FGM in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region

These Women and Girls Won't Let COVID-19 Stop Them From Helping Others

Please Donate COVID-19 has hit women especially hard. They are the caregivers, making up roughly 70 percent of the health care workforce, which has exposed them to a disproportionate share of the long...

A student photographed in an empty classroom in Panama City, Panama, on Sept. 16, 2020.

UNICEF Urges Action to End ‘Catastrophic’ Education Emergency

In sharing its latest analysis, UNICEF renewed a longstanding call for governments to prioritize the reopening of schools to end a "catastrophic education emergency."

Keren, a 12 years old girl, is listening to a radio education program, in the community of Idinau, in the south west of Cameroon

Reckoning With the Learning Crisis During the COVID-19 Pandemic

UNICEF USA applauds the re-introduction of the Global Learning Loss Assessment Act.

Jennifer, 15, coloring with daughter Scarlett, migrated from Guatemala to the United States when she was 13. She made the trip with her sisters, eventually reunited with their mother in Hempstead, N.Y.

Inside Look: How UNICEF Supports Migrant Children in the United States

Migration Program Specialist Rhonda Fleischer discusses how the pandemic and a new policy landscape are shaping UNICEF strategy.

On March 1, 2021, health workers in Côte d'Ivoire began receiving their COVID-19 vaccination with doses supplied by the COVAX Facility.

COVAX COVID-19 Vaccinations Underway in West Africa

Donate Now A brass band played outside the Treichville vaccination center in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire on March 1, 2021, as health care and frontline workers filed in to become some of the first people...

The Power of Remembrance: Black History Month 2021

Paying tribute to Black History Month and the historic role that individuals and communities of African descent have played in the U.S.

Global Examples of Humanitarian Aid from the UN

The UN coordinates humanitarian relief when natural and man-made disasters inflict devastation beyond what countries affected can handle.

On 24 February 2021, staff unloads the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the COVAX Facility at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana's capital.

First COVID-19 Vaccines Land in Ghana: A Milestone for COVAX

The largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history is off to a running start.