Over 13M babies are born too soon each year, with prematurity causing 30% of neonatal deaths in Eastern and Southern #Africa.
Every baby deserves quality care to survive and thrive. On #WorldPrematurityDay, Let’s raise awareness and support families to make a real impact!
@EvaUNICEF@UNICEFAfrica@unicefrw “Great work and Impressive progress indeed ! The fully digitized immunization program witnessed enhancing healthcare delivery and expanding vaccine coverage in countries. Great example for follow and replicate.
Honored to share that I've been privileged to receive two AWARDS for our lifesaving efforts in crisis situations.Grateful for the incredible teams and support from UNICEF that made these achievements possible.Together, we continue to strive for a healthier and safer world. 🌍
Highlighting #DRIVE ( for effective Last Mile delivery) from Malawi : a social enterprise ensuring timely vaccine delivery by young community volunteers. This reduces vaccine wastage and out-of-pocket costs for CHWs while boosting the local economy with provision of bike
Live from #WHA76 High-Level side-event on #CHW.
"We should collectively ensure community health programs are well funded, integrated across sectors, and tailored to deliver quality services that are responsive and inclusive to the needs of the population"
@TedChaiban, @UNICEF Deputy Executive Director, Humanitarian Action and Supply Operations.
High Commissioner S. Gopalakrishnan handed over the 1st tranche of GoI assistance of approx 80 tons of relief items to Hon Simplex Chithyola Minister of Trade & Industry today. The items consists blankets, tarpaulin, baby food, emergency medicines etc.
@MEAIndia@IndianDiplomacy
My heart goes out to Malawi as we face yet another emergency. The devastating cyclone named Freddy has hit the country hard. Let's take a moment to keep the Malawian people in our thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. #PrayForMalawi#CycloneFreddy"
This is a serious cholera crisis: a timely high-level emergency cholera meeting launched to commit to urgent & sustained investment to respond to the immediate outbreaks and strengthen systems and communities to be better prepared for more severe future occurrences #ENDCholera
Malawi:High level emergency ministerial meeting on cholera and climate change related public health emergencies. Proud to facilitate the panel discussion on multi-sector collaboration for SADC countries .Ending cholera will require moving beyond the health sector.
@ngwakum @MalawiUNICEF @UNICEFhealth@MalawiGovt@MoHCCZim@WHOAFRO@AfricaCDC Witnessed an excellent panel discussion facilitated Paul. Your dedication to promoting multi-sector collaboration in ending cholera for SADC countries is inspiring. Indeed, Malawi is already benefiting with strong multi sectoral collaboration response #Cholera#Outbreak
Just wrapped up a productive 2-day workshop with district officials and the Hon Min of Health with a door-to-door campaign involving 11,500 CHWs, including pot-to-pot chlorination, ORS demos, cholera prevention messages, C19 vaccination. Excited to see the impact of our efforts!
Partnering with #MANEPO ( The Malawi Network for Older Persons Organization) and #FEDOMA ( The Federation of Disability Organization of Malawi) for engagement and vaccination of elderly and people with disabilities @TedChaiban