United Nations Children's Fund

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Noun1.United Nations Children's Fund - an agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countriesUnited Nations Children's Fund - an agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries
UN agency, United Nations agency - an agency of the United Nations
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The letter added that Pyongyang wanted the number of the international staff with the UN Development Programme to be reduced to one or two from six, with the World Health Organization to four from six, and with the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) to one or two from 13.
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Friday in Abuja says it supported 700,000 malnourished children in the country with Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) as at December 2018.
The head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned against misinformation on vaccines and vaccination programmes, calling on the international community to work together to combat it.
Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the UN Abdallah Al-Mouallimi met with the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, Geert Cappelaere, in New York on Thursday.
This joint humanitarian initiative comes in cooperation with the United Nations agencies, USD 140 million to the World Food Program to bridge the funding gap for food needs, USD 40 million to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) to address sanitation issues and malnutrition among children and mothers, and USD 20 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) to help control cholera and to provide intravenous feeding fluids.
The UN Children's Fund warned last month that a funding gap and the start of winter could leave nearly one million children, including Syrians, "out in the cold" and prone to dangerous diseases in the Middle East and North Africa
"Progress in reducing undernourishment has slowed tremendously," said the regional heads of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
October 30, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - A delegation from the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) besides the Swedish Ambassador to Khartoum would visit South Kordofan on Monday to assess the humanitarian situation.
The new mortality estimates study, was released on Monday by the UN Children's Fund, together with UN Children's Fund UNICEF, the World Health Organisation WHO, the UN Population Division and the World Bank.
The United Nations through its UN Children's Fund (Unicef) started closely monitoring developments on Friday as Typhoon Ompong, internationally known as Mangkhut, got closer to Northern Luzon on Friday.
Head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) branch in Daraa, Ahmad al-Masalmeh said that the aid is provided by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), including relief materials, medical equipment, health baskets and food items.