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UNICEF – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com Connecting To Advance Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:09:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.talkafrique.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ta_logo22-150x92.jpg UNICEF – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com 32 32 Disaster Stalking Children in Africa’s Drought-Prone Sahel Region, Warns UNICEF http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/disaster-stalking-children-in-africa%e2%80%99s-drought-prone-sahel-region-warns-unicef Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:09:08 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=10590 16 March 2012 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is warning that more than a million children below the age of five in the Sahel are facing a disaster amid the ongoing food crisis in the drought-prone region of Africa. They are among the some 15 million people estimated to be at risk of …

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]]> UN-backed Partners Help DR Congo Introduce Pneumonia Vaccine http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/un-congo-introduce-pneumonia-vaccine Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:08:33 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=8244 4 April 2011 –The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today added the vaccine against pneumonia to its national immunisation programme in a United Nations-backed initiative to drastically improve the chances of survival for children under the age of five. The expanded programme is supported by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), which …

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]]> In Water-rich DR Congo, 50 Million People Lack Clean Water to Drink – UN http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/in-water-rich-dr-congo-50-million-people-lack-clean-water-to-drink-%e2%80%93-un Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:30:51 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=7975 22 March 2011 –An estimated 51 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – or three quarters of the population – have no access to safe drinking water, even though the country holds over half of Africa’s water reserves, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a new study released today. …

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]]> Fighting Malaria With Nets Nets, Mandy Moore http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/fighting-malaria-with-insecticide-treated-mosquito-nets-mandy-moore http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/fighting-malaria-with-insecticide-treated-mosquito-nets-mandy-moore#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:12:46 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=7651 I'm extremely grateful to be invited to share my voice alongside all these incredible women on International Women's Day.

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/fighting-malaria-with-insecticide-treated-mosquito-nets-mandy-moore/feed 1 Stopping Early Marriages in Africa http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/unicef-stopping-early-marriages-in-africa Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:58:42 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=7530 UNICEF helps to begin changing attitudes towards early marriage in Niger In several communities across Africa, a young girl often does not have a say in whether and whom she will marry. It is the parents, both the man’s and the girl’s, who make the decision. In Niger, 1 out of 2 girls is married …

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]]> New pneumonia vaccine targets leading cause of child deaths worldwide – UN http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/pneumonia-vaccine-targets-leading-of-child-deaths-worldwide-%e2%80%93-un Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:28:04 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=7012 14 February 2011 –Hundreds of infants in Kenya received their first shots against pneumococcal disease today at a special United Nations-backed event to celebrate the global roll-out of vaccines targeting the world’s leading cause of child deaths – pneumonia. President Mwai Kibaki joined parents, health workers, ambassadors and donors in Nairobi to witness children being …

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]]> Measles Campaign Planned for Liberian Villages Hosting Ivorian Refugees – UN http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/ivorian-refugees-measles-vaccination-campaign-liberian-villages Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:24:24 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=6573 1 February 2011 –The Government of Liberia, with support from United Nations agencies, will launch a week-long measles vaccination campaign on Wednesday targeting all children in Nimba County, which hosts over 30,000 refugees who fled the political turmoil in neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire. As of the end of January, five Liberian children between one and five …

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]]> Children in Cameroon Learn to Fight Cholera http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/in-the-face-of-worst-outbreak-in-decades-children-in-cameroon-learn-to-fight-cholera Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:30:03 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=1239 UNICEF MAROUA, Cameroon, 18 October 2010 – In the packed playground of Harde Primary School in Cameroon’s Extreme North province, six teams of local school children sit at desks in a semi-circle. “Write down the main symptoms of cholera,” a teacher instructs into a microphone, her words crackling over the buzz of hundreds of school …

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