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Every child has the right to survive and thrive.
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In 2019, 6.1 million children and young adolescents died, mostly from preventable
causes. Children under the age of 5 accounted for 5.2 million of these deaths –
nearly half of whom were newborn babies.
Every six seconds, a child under the age of 5 dies somewhere in the
world.
What’s more, some 810 women die each day from causes related to pregnancy and
childbirth. Many of these deaths can be avoided. But inadequate access to quality
and equitable health care and life-saving supplies still contributes significantly to
preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths, as well as stillbirths.
For children and adolescents in emergency and humanitarian settings, health risks
escalate. Life-saving health services are often unavailable or inaccessible, making
newborns, children, adolescents and mothers particularly vulnerable to harm.
Nearly 40 per cent of the global under-five deaths occurred in countries suffering
humanitarian crises.
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Baby Hadja, 6 months old, with mother Esther Tabu, 24 years old, at a community outreach point in
Juba, South Sudan.
Despite the scale of the challenge, solutions are in sight. Achieving the Sustainable
Development Goals requires a global shift from treating diseases to strengthening
health systems so that all children, adolescents and women of reproductive age have
access to affordable, quality health care.
UNICEF works around the world – including in some of the hardest-to-reach places –
to help children survive and thrive. Through public and private partnerships at the
global, national and community levels, we focus on:
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sustaining immunization programmes, and supporting preventive, promotive and
curative services for pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria and other child health
conditions.
Child and adolescent health and well-being
UNICEF is committed to helping children and adolescents build a solid foundation
for adulthood. We support national health plans on adolescent health and well-being,
improve age-specific health services for children and adolescents, and help countries
combat non-communicable diseases including mental ill-health, prevent injuries and
better support children with developmental delays and disabilities.
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Read more about the UNICEF key results for maternal, newborn and adolescent
health, immunization, child health, HIV and AIDS, and primary health care.
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Annual Report for Health 2020
Read more about UNICEF’s progress expanding access to quality health care for
children and adolescents around the globe.
This report is the first publication by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality
Estimation, which exclusively looks at data around stillbirths.
This report is the first publication by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality
Estimation, which exclusively looks at data around stillbirths.
Read more about what needs to be done to accelerate global efforts to end
preventable newborn deaths.
Read more about UNICEF’s approach to building strong health systems that reach
every child.
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