Tag: UNICEF
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...
UN Secretary-General’s Chief of Staff applauds Nigeria on impressive integrated health...
SAT, JUNE 10 2023-theGBJournal |The Chief of Staff to the United Nations Secretary-General (COS), Mr Earle Courtenay Rattray, has applauded Nigeria on impressive integrated...
Snap Analysis | Investment in needle free vaccines could significantly reduce...
SAT, MAY 20 2023-theGBJournal |Positive results announced by Micron Biomedical earlier this week stated that a measles and rubella vaccine patch has completed a...
Nigeria steps up measures to reach eligible children with potent vaccines
Friday, MAY 19 2023-theGBJournal | At least 64 per cent of children between ages 12-23 months in Nigeria did not receive all recommended vaccines...
A new effort – “The Big Catch-up” – to vaccinate millions...
TUE, APRIL. 25 2023-theGBJournal | The World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, along with...
Global Food Crisis| UN agencies call for urgent action to protect...
...Eight million are severely wasted – the deadliest form of under nutrition - meaning they are 12 times more likely to die than children...
More than 1.5 million children at risk as devastating floods hit...
...The floods are adding another layer of complexity to an already precarious humanitarian situation in the country
SAT, 22 OCT, 2022-theGBJournal| More than 2.5 million...
Nigeria launches major push to protect children against deadliest form of...
…Today’s launch marks the introduction of the rotavirus vaccine, which protects against rotavirus-related diarrhoeal disease, into Nigeria’s routine immunization programme.
…In partnership with Gavi, the...
Nigeria vaccinates over 45 Million people against Yellow Fever during the...
…In 2016, deadly outbreaks of yellow fever in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with spread to China, put the African continent...
