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Amid the pandemic, the free mental health services have gone online through WhatsApp and SMS as part of safety measures. Photo source: Friendship Bench

Friendship Bench: Zimbabwe’s Community-based Talk-Therapy Supporting Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

27 Jan 2021

7 min read

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Health care workers and patients in the temporary outside area Steve Biko Academic Hospital created to screen and treat suspected Covid-19 cases in Pretoria. Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images

South African scientists who discovered new COVID-19 variant share what they know

26 Jan 2021

7 min read

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In their canvassing of a predominantly Cuban American neighborhood in October, Alejandro Díaz (right) and another community outreach worker, María Elena González (left), spoke with Gloria Carvajal about how to get a covid-19 test. (Verónica Zaragovia/WLRN)

Door to Door in Miami’s Little Havana to Build Trust in Testing, Vaccination

26 Jan 2021

5 min read

Country stories COVID-19 Cross-posts

Health worker Saira Faisal vaccinates a child against polio in Saddar town, Karachi, in August 2020. ©UNICEF/Pakistan

What it takes to vaccinate 39 million children in Pakistan

21 Jan 2021

4 min read

Country stories Polio COVID-19 Cross-posts Routine immunisation

@ UNICEFSouthSudan/Willemot Evans Ariko Shawish (right) Manager, Expanded Programme for Immunization, Ministry of Health, Western Equatoria State and Daniel Drinchi, Health Officer, UNICEF Yambio field office, inspecting the central cold chain storage in the state capital Yambio. The cold chain is now used for measles and polio vaccines among others and will soon also be used for COVID-19 vaccines.

South Sudan: We are ready to take up the challenge

18 Jan 2021

4 min read

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woman washing her hand at a handwashing station in front of her home in Marua – Gavi/2020/Christophe Da Silva

How COVID-19 is placing increased pressure on water resources for farmers in Cameroon

18 Jan 2021

2 min read

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How South Africa is preparing for its COVID-19 vaccine introduction

15 Jan 2021

8 min read

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The REDISSE grant from the NCDC helped improve community testing exercises across the 27 local governments of Imo State. Photo Credit: Nigeria Health Watch

Preparing ahead: How Imo State harnessed the REDISSE project to improve its COVID-19 response

14 Jan 2021

10 min read

Country stories Photo stories COVID-19 Cross-posts

Gavi/2016/Duncan Graham-Rowe

From biodefence to the DRC: How the Ebola vaccine became one of the fastest vaccines to license in history

12 Jan 2021

10 min read

Country stories Videos Ebola COVID-19

© UNICEF Somalia/2020/Taxta

Rallying to vaccinate every child against polio

14 Dec 2020

4 min read

Photo stories Country stories Polio Cross-posts Routine immunisation

@ UNICEF Uganda/2020/Kabuye

Health workers use special days to reach every child with life-saving vaccines

4 Dec 2020

5 min read

Country stories Photo stories COVID-19 Cross-posts Routine immunisation

@ UNICEF Kenya

Video: How Kenya is prioritising routine immunisation services during the COVID-19 pandemic 

16 Nov 2020

2 min read

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