Tag: UNICEF
UNICEF issues $58.8 million appeal to halt Mpox spread in Africa
...UNICEF issued an urgent appeal on Friday for nearly $59 million to support efforts to halt the rapid spread of mpox in six African...
UNICEF issues emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines for crisis-hit countries...
...The UNICEF tender is issued to help secure mpox vaccines for the hardest hit countries in collaboration with Africa CDC, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance,...
Human Rights Watch tackles Nigerian Government 10 years after Chibok, says...
...Calls for implementation of safe schools plan to protect schools, children
FRI APRIL 12 2024-theGBJournal| Ten years after the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in...
Nigeria becomes the first country to receive the new meningitis vaccine...
...Doses will be used to respond to an on-going meningococcus C outbreak, targeting to vaccinate around a million children in six local government areas...
Gavi’s Board approves more than US$ 1.8 billion in support for...
...Establishes African Vaccine manufacturing accelerator
...The Board approved the inclusion of the new multivalent meningococcal vaccine into the Gavi portfolio, as well as the shortlist...
Save the Children calls for urgent funds to manage Diphtheria outbreak...
...Currently only 42% of children under 15 in Nigeria are fully protected from diphtheria, and in this most recent outbreak, 80% of the confirmed...
Kaduna State Governor pledges 15% of state’s annual budget to healthcare
THUR, AUGUST 17 2023-theGBJournal |Fifteen percent of the state’s annual budget will be allocated to the provision of healthcare services to the people of...
US Government signs new private sector partnership agreement with Emzor Food...
FRI, AUGUST 11 2023-theGBJournal |The United States government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Thursday signed a new private sector partnership with...
Day of the African Child| Digital learning platforms can increase access...
FRI, JUNE 16 2023-theGBJournal |As Nigeria joins the rest of Africa to commemorate the Day of the African Child, UNICEF calls on government and...
Vaccine Alliance reaches more than one billion children with childhood vaccines
...The Alliance is on track to immunise 300 million children between 2021 and 2025 and prevent 7-8 million deaths during this period, generating an...
