In Gaza’s makeshift classrooms, fortified snacks and nutrition support are helping children regain stability, return to learning and remember that their role is to grow, dream and be children again.

Angela Bassett, award winning actress, highlights that for mothers and newborns in crises, a $5 UNFPA Emergency Birth Kit can mean the difference between life and death.

Gavi and UNICEF have reached a new pricing agreement that will cut the cost of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine to $2.99 per dose within a year. Malaria kills nearly one child under five every minute. 

Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, there lived a silent creature named polio...

Should women have more children? Let's explore with Shudufhadzo Musida, United Nations Population Agency Global Champion for Women and Girls.

NBA All-Star and two-time NBA champion Pau Gasol, UNICEF’s Global Champion for Nutrition and Zero Childhood Obesity, is helping lead the fight against the global childhood obesity pandemic by whipping up a healthy recipe for change. 

In 2025, obesity surpassed underweight among children for the first time, driven by toxic food environments, while UNICEF’s “Fix My Food” movement empowers youth worldwide to advocate for healthier, more equitable food policies.

A Chance to Breathe. Tiny cries, big hope: incubators are giving Somalia’s newborns a fighting chance. Imagine holding your breath, waiting for your newborn’s first cry, and hearing only silence... That was Faduma’s reality in Mogadishu, until a simple incubator gave her baby the breath of life. In this powerful, heart-tugging story from UNFPA, discover how a handful of life-saving machines —incubators, oxygen units, and surgical gear — are transforming hospitals once teetering on the edge of despair. Meet the unstoppable health workers defying the odds, mothers who turn fear into joy, and the miracle of modern care in places where even electricity isn’t a guarantee. It’s a story of survival, love, and why funding matters — because every breath counts.

From measles to polio, immunization has saved 154 million lives in 50 years—and holds the key to a future where no child dies from preventable diseases.

Pregnant women and new mothers in the West Bank are facing life-threatening risks as violence, displacement, and the collapse of healthcare services leave them without access to essential care.

Maternal health is a critical global issue, most of which are preventable with timely, skilled care. Although progress has been made, inequalities persist, particularly in fragile and humanitarian settings, requiring urgent action to ensure universal access to quality maternal health services as part of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Maternal health is a critical global issue, most of which are preventable with timely, skilled care. Although progress has been made, inequalities persist, particularly in fragile and humanitarian settings, requiring urgent action to ensure universal access to quality maternal health services as part of the Sustainable Development Goals.

UN Population Fund works to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person has guaranteed access to sexual and reproductive health services and rights.

The new year offers hope for peace, safety, and better futures, with 2024 teaching us lessons to create an improved reproductive health system in 2025.

21 December marks the first World Meditation Day, a United Nations observance celebrating the power of meditation for physical and mental well-being. Rooted in ancient traditions and recognized globally for reducing stress and enhancing focus, meditation is a vital self-care tool highlighted by the World Health Organization for managing anxiety. As people across cultures and ages embrace this practice, the observance inspires collective mindfulness and a commitment to health and harmony. Join the global movement and explore the benefits of stillness for a brighter, more sustainable future.

“We cannot have health without peace. Peace is the most urgent medicine.”

As a doctor, Dr. Hans Kluge helped save lives in some of the toughest places on Earth. Now the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Europe, he is working to improve the health of hundreds of millions of people - in a region stretching from Vladivostok to Lisbon.

“My dream and my vision is that we have a culture of health [...] independent of your financial means, your sexual orientation, whether you are documented or an undocumented migrant, that you are empowered to live a healthy life, [...] we have to have universal health coverage.”

Stepping into his European role just as a global pandemic swept the earth, Hans never dreamed that his previous experience in crisis-hit sub-Saharan Africa would prove so useful. In this episode, Hans reflects on lessons learned during COVID, the mental health crisis, and on surprising methods to build trust with remote communities.

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