...investments are needed to improve maternal and child nutrition through pregnancy, infancy, and early childhood by protecting breastfeeding and preventing the inappropriate marketing of infant ...formula in the context of COVID-19;6 securing children and women's access to nutritious and diverse foods; and providing accurate information on infant feeding to caregivers. ...services for the early detection and treatment of child wasting need to be re-activated and scaled up while maintaining and expanding prevention and other nutrition services, including vitamin A supplementation for children, and micronutrient supplementation and nutritional support for pregnant and breastfeeding women, and minimising the risk of infection. ...social protection to safeguard access to nutritious diets and essential services among the poorest households, including access to fortified foods, needs to be expanded.
Distribution of pulse oximeters and oxygen equipment, together with additional support to front-line health-care services, offers an opportunity to close the gap in access to these essential ...diagnostic and treatment tools for hypoxaemia, which is often associated with childhood pneumonia deaths.8,9 The COVID-19 response is also an opportunity to invest in training of health-care staff to operate and maintain such equipment and safely administer oxygen to patients. Countries are preparing to procure and distribute COVID-19 vaccines when they become available, and to shore up existing immunisation programmes—an opportunity to also reach the 52% of children globally who still require a full course of pneumococcal pentavalent vaccine (PCV).11 The pandemic has also generated an urgent demand for better data to monitor the pandemic and its effects on the health-care system, including coverage of pulse oximetry, oxygen, and the recommended first-line antibiotics for child pneumonia. In January, 2020, at the inaugural Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia, in Barcelona, Spain, government leaders and representatives from UN and multilateral agencies, private companies, non-profit organisations, and academic institutions from over 55 countries endorsed a declaration committing to six strategic actions to accelerate progress in reducing child pneumonia deaths (panel).12 On World Pneumonia Day, on Nov 12, 2020, it is time to take stock of the key actions the global health community should be taking to support country efforts to strengthen primary health care and health information systems to accelerate progress in preventing child pneumonia infections and deaths.
L’innovation et l’essor de la technologie numérique ont changé à jamais la façon dont nous travaillons, interagissons, créons et partageons l’information. Les technologies innovantes changent aussi ...la façon dont le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’enfance (UNICEF) soutient les enfants et les jeunes dans le monde.
Innovation and the rise of digital technology have forever changed how we work, interact with one another, and create and share information. Innovative technologies are also changing how we, at the ...United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), are supporting children and young people around the world.
Innovative technologies are also changing how we, at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), are supporting children and young people around the world. Using RapidPro, national partners are ...monitoring the immunization of millions of children in Indonesia, training health workers in Senegal, speeding up responses to breakdowns in water delivery for rural communities in Zimbabwe, and supporting Palestinian children with disabilities. In a similar vein, the rapid rise of mobile phone technology over the last two decades has driven the creation of U-Report, which is helping us reach children and young people in the hardest-to-reach communities in new ways-and helping them reach us. Johnson & Johnson and the Government of the Republic of Korea are joining forces with UNICEF to design, test and implement digital solutions that have connected 85 million children, caregivers and their communities to public health systems in countries such as Indonesia, Mexico, Senegal, Uganda and Zambia.
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