Obesity overtakes being underweight among world's young, says UNICEF
World 11:02 10/09/2025Globally, obesity is likely now more prevalent among school-aged children and adolescents than being underweight, according to a new report from UNICEF which blamed increasingly unhealthy food environments worldwide for the shift.
Aid funding disrupts child vaccinations almost as much as pandemic, says UN
World 09:42 24/04/2025LONDON -- Global aid funding cuts, led by the United States, are disrupting efforts to vaccinate children against deadly diseases almost as much as the COVID-19 pandemic did, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Australia completes commitment to share 7.8 million COVID-19 vaccine shots with Vietnam
Vietnam News 15:12 20/02/2022The final 2.2 million doses arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday
Australia, UNICEF provide Vietnam with over 1,900 COVID-19 vaccine refrigerators
Vietnam News 12:21 10/11/2021The vaccine refrigerators were handed over along with other medical supplies on Tuesday
COVAX delivers almost 1.2mn more COVID-19 vaccine doses to Vietnam
Vietnam News 18:34 02/08/2021The country had received around 17.6 million shots of various vaccines before this batch’s arrival
UNICEF says will lead procurement, supply of COVID-19 vaccines in world’s largest operation
World 10:23 07/09/2020UNICEF will work with manufacturers and partners on the procurement of vaccine doses as well as freight, logistics, and storage of COVID-19 vaccines, on behalf of global COVAX Facility
UNICEF campaign to reduce child mortality launched
Vietnam News 21:58 11/10/2013Believe in Zero – a UNICEF’s global campaign aiming to protect poor and disadvantages children and reduce the number of preventable child deaths to zero, has officially been kicked off
