A Unicef report out Tuesday blamed enforced home-learning of as long as a year, due to the shuttering of schools during COVID-19, for sharp declines in the academic skills, mental and physical ...

Millions of children around the world missed routine childhood vaccinations against diseases such as measles, diphtheria and tetanus during the Covid-19 pandemic, but new data suggests that this ...

Childhood vaccinations coverage slowed significantly even before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new study found.

UNICEF continues to scale-up and deliver across sectors to address the needs created by the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, UNICEF has reached 2.6 billion people on COVID- 19 messaging on prevention ...

That dropped to 70% in 2023. It’s a worldwide trend: confidence in vaccines dropped in 52 out of 55 countries recently studied by the UN children’s agency (Unicef), tumbling by more than a third in ...

Kennedy called on Gavi “to re-earn the public trust and to justify the $8 billion America has provided in funding since 2001, ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund warned of a “real and widespread learning crisis” in the Philippines, as recent findings revealed that a vast majority of students are falling significantly behind ...

THE Philippines faces mounting threats of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks as expected delays in vaccine supply continued to hinder the ...

It was not pregnancy itself, but resource constraints, that kept Malawian girls from school during and after the pandemic.