Press Releases

UNICEF begins shipping syringes for the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines under COVAX

Publication date: February 23, 2021

100,000 syringes will arrive in Maldives, with more countries to receive imminent deliveries for rollout of COVAX Facility vaccines

Auto-disable syringes that are being used in the COVID-19 response, photographed at UNICEF's warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 22 January 2021.

UNICEF Canada and CanWaCH welcome Canada’s new $75 million investment in the ACT Accelerator

Publication date: February 19, 2021

The Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health (CanWaCH) and UNICEF Canada welcome Canada’s continued leadership in global health demonstrated through the announcement of $75 million in new funding for the ACT Accelerator.

CanWaCH and UNICEF Canada welcome Canada’s new $75 million investment in the ACT Accelerator

In the COVID-19 vaccine race, we either win together or lose together

Publication date: February 10, 2021

Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

On 8 October 2020 at Gurei Health Care Centre in Juba, South Sudan, Elisabeth Abraham Loro, nurse and vaccinator, collects vaccines from a cold box.

COVAX PUBLISHES FIRST INTERIM DISTRIBUTION FORECAST

Publication date: February 3, 2021

CEPI, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the World Health Organisation, as co-leads of the COVAX initiative for equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines, alongside key delivery partner UNICEF, are pleased to publish COVAX’s first interim distribution forecast.

COVAX PUBLISHES FIRST INTERIM DISTRIBUTION FORECAST

Nutrition crisis looms as more than 39 billion in-school meals missed since start of pandemic – UNICEF and WFP

Publication date: January 28, 2021

School meals, often the one nutritious daily meal that children get, must be prioritized in school reopening plans

Children from the Child Protection Service Hub having their lunch

Children cannot afford another year of school disruption

Publication date: January 12, 2021

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

On 15 April 2020 in Kyiv, Ukraine, Zlata, 7, works on schoolwork from home, with all schools in the country closed as part of measures to combat the spread of COVID-19.

UNICEF outlining plans to transport up to 850 tonnes of COVID-19 vaccines per month on behalf of COVAX, in ‘mammoth and historic’ logistics operation

Publication date: December 18, 2020

UNICEF – in partnership with Gavi and WHO – is also helping low- and lower-middle-income countries prepare to receive COVID-19 vaccines in 2021

Some of the 3,842,000 doses of bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) that arrived in Uganda on 24 April 2020 to support ongoing routine immunization services throughout the country.

Teachers should be prioritized for vaccination against COVID-19

Publication date: December 15, 2020

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

05 November 2020, Trom Village, Laminh Commune, Borkeo District, Rattanakiri, Cambodia. Portrait of MORN Sambo, 27, teacher at the village primary school of Trom, teaching a disabled student.

Statement by UNICEF Canada’s President and CEO David Morley on Canada’s additional support for equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments and vaccines

Publication date: December 14, 2020

UNICEF Canada welcomes the Government of Canada’s new contributions to fight the global pandemic

Pinky Kumari, Cold Chain Handler, prepares to keep vaccine in vaccine carriers at Primary health centre (PHE) in Begusarai, Bihar.

Child poverty to rise above pre-COVID levels for at least five years in high-income countries including Canada - UNICEF

Publication date: December 11, 2020

In high-income countries, only 2 per cent of fiscal stimulus was allocated specifically to support children during the first wave of COVID-19; a better balance of spending that provides more direct support to children is urgently needed