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A health worker attends to an mpox patient, at a treatment center in Munigi, eastern Congo, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

WHO grants first mpox vaccine approval to ramp up response to disease in Africa and beyond

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FILE - Migrants heading north ride arrive to Lajas Blancas, Darien province, Panama, Oct. 6, 2023, after walking across the Darien Gap from Colombia. A U.N. report says child migration through Panama’s dangerous Darien Gap is up 40% so far in 2024. UNICEF, the U.N. child welfare agency said Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File)

Child migration through Panama’s dangerous Darien Gap is up 40%, U.N. report says

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Rescue workers evacuate villagers through a boat from a flooded area of Pakpattan district of Pakistan's Punjab province, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Rescuers have evacuated more than 100,000 people from flood-hit areas of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province in the past three weeks, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo)

UNICEF says a year on from Pakistan’s catastrophic floods, millions of children still need support

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

A teacher leads a class of girls on the first day of the school year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, March 25, 2023. UNICEF said Thursday, June 8, 2023, it is deeply concerned about reports of the Taliban pushing out international organizations from Afghanistan's education sector and ordering them to hand over their activities to local nongovernmental groups. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

UNICEF concerned by Taliban move to bar international groups from Afghan education sector

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A child receives a polio vaccine, during the Malawi Polio Vaccination Campaign Launch in Lilongwe Malawi, Sunday, March 20, 2022. A new report from UNICEF says nearly 13 million children missed one or more vaccinations in Africa between 2019 and 2021 because of the disruptive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi/File)

UNICEF: 12.7 million children in Africa missed vaccinations

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

A child receives a polio vaccine, during the Malawi Polio Vaccination Campaign Launch in Lilongwe Malawi, Sunday March 20, 2022. A drive to vaccinate more than 9 million children against polio has been launched this week in four countries in southern and eastern Africa after an outbreak was confirmed in Malawi. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

9 million children to be vaccinated against polio in Africa

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FILE - In this June 20, 2017, file photo, United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric fields questions for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during his first press conference with U.N. correspondents, on World Refugee Day, at U.N. headquarters. Dujarric expressed deep concern at the reports "of the horrific killing of 11 people" and strongly condemned such violence. He reminded Myanmar's military authorities of their obligations under international law to ensure the safety and protection of civilians and called for those responsible "for this heinous act" to be held accountable. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

UN appoints Biden adviser Catherine Russell to head UNICEF

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An elementary school student, wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus outbreak, receives a Td vaccine shot from a health worker during a free vaccination service for schoolchildren in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) **FILE**

Millions of children missed routine shots in 2020 due to pandemic

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

The first arrival of COVID-19 vaccines to Kenya is offloaded from a Qatar Airways flight at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, early Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Around 1.02 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India arrived at the airport as part of the COVAX facility, according to the Ministry of Health. (AP Photo)

Kenya receives receives 1 million vaccines from COVAX

By BY TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Fire kills 3 children in Syrian camp housing IS families

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In this file photo dated Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, vials of the AstraZeneca vaccine and loaded syringes wait to be administered to homeless persons at the Welcome Centre in Ilford, east London. The World Health Organization Monday Feb. 15, 2021, granted an emergency authorization to the coronavirus vaccine made by AstraZeneca, a move that should allow its partners to ship millions of doses to countries worldwide as part of a U.N.-backed program to stop the pandemic. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, FILE)

Ghana is first nation in world to receive COVAX vaccines

By Francis Kokutse and Carley Petesch - Associated Press

UN gets airlines to deliver COVID-19 vaccines as a priority

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A worker moves boxes at Snowman Logistics, India's largest cold storage company in Taloja, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. The vaccine cold chain hurdle is just the latest disparity of the pandemic weighted against the poor, who more often live and work in crowded conditions that allow the virus to spread, have little access to medical oxygen vital to COVID-19 treatment, and whose health systems lack labs, supplies or technicians to carry out large-scale testing. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Vaccine storage issues could leave 3B people without access

By LORI HINNANT and SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2019 file photo, a malnourished newborn baby lies in an incubator at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The U.N. children’s agency says that millions of Yemeni children could be pushed to “the brink of starvation” as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the war-torn Arab country amid a huge drop in humanitarian aid funding. UNICEF on Friday, June 26, 2020 released a new report, “Yemen five years on: Children, conflict and COVID-19.” (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

UNICEF: Millions of Yemeni children may starve amid pandemic

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

UN: 19 million children among 46 million displaced in 2019

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FILE -- In this Nov. 23, 2019 file photo, a malnourished boy lies in a bed waiting to receive treatment at a feeding center at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The U.N. children’s agency has appealed for an additional $92.4 million to help fight the coronavirus in the Middle East and North Africa. The conflict-battered region had 25 million children in need of aid before the pandemic, the highest number anywhere. The economic downturn linked to the outbreak is expected to push an additional 4 million children into poverty. Ted Chaiban, the head of UNICEF in the region, says Yemen is a top concern. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

UNICEF seeks more aid for at-risk Mideast kids amid pandemic

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Young members of the Guatemalan delegation find UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham in the audience during a high-level meeting on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

It’s World Children’s Day and anniversary of child rights

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Thousands of school backpacks are laid out in an installation on the North Lawn of the United Nations Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019. The installation, created by UNICEF, illustrates the scale of child deaths in conflict zones in 2018. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

UN agency lays backpacks for every child killed in conflict

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UN agency: Attacks on schools in Afghanistan tripled in 2018

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 4, 2018, file photo, Bangladeshi children sit on garbage piled up by the river Buriganga in Hazaribagh area in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A new report by the United Nations children’s agency says the lives and futures of more than 19 million Bangladeshi children are at risk from colossal impacts of devastating floods, cyclones and other environmental disasters linked to climate change. The UNICEF report released Friday, April 5, 2019 said the tally includes Rohingya refugee children from Myanmar who are living in squalid camps in southern Bangladesh.( AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File)

UN: Climate disasters imperil Bangladesh kids’ lives, future

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press