Press releases and statements
Addis Ababa January 16-18 - African Leadership For Child Survival
Nigeria launches initiative to save one million lives by 2015
ABUJA, Nigeria, 16 October 2012 - Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan today launched Saving One Million Lives, an ambitious and comprehensive initiative to scale up access to essential primary health services and commodities for Nigeria’s women and children.Read more >>
Diverse countries are making rapid progress in child survival – UNICEF report
NEW YORK, 13 September 2012 – Countries across the world are making rapid progress in reducing child deaths, demonstrating that it is possible to radically reduce child mortality over the span of two decades, a UNICEF report says today.Read more >>
Accelerating progress on child survival since 2000, UN says
NEW YORK/GENEVA, 13 September 2012 – The pace of reducing child deaths has accelerated sharply since 2000, according to new data released today by UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the UN Population Division.Read more >>
USAID Press Release: Public and Private Partners Unite to Scale Up Treatment of Childhood Diarrhea and Pneumonia
WASHINGTON, D.C. 14 June 2012 - Today, two private companies, the U.S. and Canadian governments, and multiple leading global health organizations have joined together to accelerate progress toward ending preventable child deaths from diarrhea and pneumonia in the highest burden countries.
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UNICEF Press Release: World unites to accelerate progress in ending preventable child deaths
WASHINGTON, D.C. 14 June 2012 – Today over 80 governments and a multitude of partners from the private sector, civil society, and faith-based organizations gather at the Child Survival Call to Action – a high-level forum convened by the governments of Ethiopia, India and the United States, in collaboration with UNICEF, to launch a sustained, global effort to save children’s lives.
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UNICEF Statement: UNICEF welcomes public and private pledge to scale up treatment of childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia
WASHINGTON, D.C., 14 June 2012 – UNICEF welcomes a declaration today by two private companies, the U.S. and Canadian governments and leading global health organizations to scale up treatment of childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia – two of the leading killers of children under the age of five.
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