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Routine Vaccines and COVID-19: What Parents Need to Know

How to safely get routine vaccinations for your child during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A mother holds her baby at a mobile clinic.

Stay Home Diaries: Everything is different in 2020

Jayanti, a first year university student, shares her experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Soap: One of the Best Defenses Against COVID-19

How UNICEF is equipping families and communities with soap and clean water to protect themselves against COVID-19.

A little girl holds a jerry can of clean water.

At least 19 million children at imminent risk as Cyclone Amphan makes landfall in Bangladesh and India

Cyclone and COVID-19 present dual threats to children and families in the region, warns UNICEF

Young girl under shelter bracing for Cyclone Amphan

Escalating violence in eastern DRC is straining humanitarian assistance to women and children: UNICEF

Over a quarter of a million people, the majority of them children, have fled intensifying violence in Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since the beginning of the year, UNICEF warned today.

Loda camp is one of around 87 displacement camps in Ituri province. The population includes around 1,500 children.

COVID-19: Dangers mount for migrant children forcibly returned to northern Central America and Mexico during pandemic

Virus fears compound existing discrimination and violence for returned migrant children, leaving them doubly at risk, UNICEF warns

Surge in violent attacks during COVID-19 lockdown puts children’s lives at risk in eastern Ukraine – UNICEF

UN Children’s Agency calls for all parties to the conflict to join global ceasefire and end more than six years of fighting

Lera Nagormay, 10, sits for a photograph in a classroom at school in Marinka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

2.3 million children in need of protection in the Central Sahel region in 2020, a more than 80 per cent increase in one year

Existing child protection crisis worsens amid COVID-19

COVID-19: A Double Emergency

COVID-19 is bringing a new threat to already battered countries – and makes delivering life-saving assistance even harder.

A child stands in front of her tin house in Bangladesh.

At least 80 million children under one at risk of diseases such as diphtheria, measles and polio as COVID-19 disrupts routine vaccination efforts, warn Gavi, WHO and UNICEF

Agencies call for joint effort to safely deliver routine immunization and proceed with vaccination campaigns against deadly vaccine-preventable diseases.