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According to official data published on Thursday July 15, 2021 by WHO and UNICEF, 23 million children missed out on basic vaccines through routine immunization services in 2020. The report says the figure is 3.7 million more than in…

The Gombe State Epidemiologist, Dr. Nuhu Bile, says no fewer than 52,000 residents in Gombe have been tested for COVID-19. READ ALSO: Gombe State begins second jab of COVID-19 vaccine The state epidemiologist…

To avoid the “harmful” effects of remote learning, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that COVID-19 tests should be carried out in schools  even when no cases have been detected. WHO’s regional director for Europe, Hans…

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says that more than 150 children have been separated from their families and more than 170 are feared to be missing in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Goma district due to the horrid episode of the…

The head of UNICEF, the United Nations children’s agency, has asked G7 countries to donate supplies of COVID-19 vaccines to the global COVAX sharing scheme as an emergency measure to address a severe shortfall caused by disruption to Indian…

Famine is looming in southern Madagascar, where children are starving after drought and sandstorms ruined harvests, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. Senior director of WFP operations globally, Amer Daoudi, speaking from…

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi on Friday declared a state of siege over the worsening violence in the eastern provinces of Ituri and North Kivu that has killed hundreds this year and displaced more than 1.5 million. A surge in…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Children right to immunization access in N/EAST and other health services was a fundamental human right. Phuong Nguyen, UNICEF Chief of Field Office Maiduguri, Borno State, said this in a…

The Democratic Republic of Congo says it will return to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) a total of 1.3 million doses of the 1.7 million it received, for redistribution to other African countries. Unicef regional advisor for…

Health authorities are reallocating around 75% of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 1.7 million AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses to other African countries to make sure they’re used before they expire, a UNICEF representative said on…