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FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2020 file photo, a protester holds a sign with a message to stop supporting gangs during a protest demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A UNICEF report says that escalating gang violence has displaced thousands of women and children in the capital in the first two weeks of June 2021. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)
Report: Gang violence displaces thousands in Haiti's capital

By Dánica Coto And Evens Sanon Jun. 15, 2021 10:09 AM EDT

FILE- In this Sept. 20, 2019 photo, a baby gets an oral anti-polio vaccine during the launch of a campaign to end the resurgence of polio after health authorities confirmed a polio case in the country in Quezon city, Philippines. A polio outbreak in the Philippines has ended, according to the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund, Friday June 11, 2021 which praised government efforts to fight the disease despite the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
WHO, UNICEF declare end of polio outbreak in the Philippines

Jun. 11, 2021 09:05 AM EDT

Jean Gough, UNICEF regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, greets an infant in a malnutrition clinic in Les Cayes, Haiti, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Gough visited the southern seaport amid concerns over an increase in malnutrition and a drop in childhood immunizations that officials blame on the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)
UNICEF says malnutrition spikes for Haiti kids amid pandemic

By Pierre Richard Luxama And Dánica Coto May. 31, 2021 12:02 AM EDT

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syria's Health Minister Hassan Ghabbash, during a press conference where he announced receiving the first batch of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines, in Damascus, Syria Thursday, April 22, 2021. Ghabbash said that the Syrian government received a batch of 203,000 COVID-19 vaccines Thursday, in a move aimed at speeding up a sluggish inoculation process in the war-torn country. (SANA via AP)
Syria receives batch of UN vaccines to speed up virus fight

By Albert Aji Apr. 22, 2021 05:54 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2021 file photo, a migrant and his children cross the Tuquesa river after a trip on foot through the jungle to Bajo Chiquito, Darien Province, Panama. According to a UNICEF report published Monday, March 29, 2021, the number of migrant children and teenagers moving north through Panama’s Darien region has risen drastically since 2017. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File) (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File)
UN: Increase in child migrants through dangerous Darien Gap

Mar. 29, 2021 07:08 PM EDT

A displaced Syrian boy holds a chicken, as he sits outside his family's tent, at a refugee camp in Bar Elias, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Friday, March 5, 2021. UNICEF said Wednesday, March 10, 2021 that Syria’s 10-year-long civil war has killed or wounded about 12,000 children and left millions out of school in what could have repercussions for years to come in the country. The country's bitter conflict has killed nearly half a million people, wounded more than a million and displaced half the country’s population, including more than 5 million as refugees. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
UNICEF: Syria's war has killed and wounded 12,000 children

By Bassem Mroue Mar. 10, 2021 10:57 AM EST

COVID-19 vaccines are offloaded from a plane at Lagos airport, Tuesday March 2, 2021. Nigeria received vaccines acquired through the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative with a delivery of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India. (AP Photo/Gbemiga Olamikan)
Nigeria receives nearly 4 million vaccines from COVAX

By Carley Petesch Mar. 02, 2021 07:00 AM EST

This photograph released by UNICEF on Wednesday Feb. 24, 2021 shows the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the COVAX Facility arriving at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana. Ghana has become the first country in the world to receive vaccines acquired through the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative with a delivery of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India. (Francis Kokoroko/UNICEF via AP)
Ghana 1st nation to receive coronavirus vaccines from COVAX

By Francis Kokutse And Carley Petesch Feb. 24, 2021 05:23 AM EST

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

Feb. 16, 2021 11:38 PM EST
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations children’s agency launched an initiative Tuesday to get airlines to give priority to delivering coronavirus vaccines,...

Dustin Johnson watches a shot during the second round of the Tournament of Champions golf event Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, at Kapalua Plantation Course in Kapalua, Hawaii. (Matthew Thayer/The Maui News via AP)
Golf governing bodies start to reveal plans to curb distance

By Doug Ferguson Feb. 02, 2021 02:59 PM EST

FILE - In this July 13, 2019, file photo, health workers wearing protective suits tend to an Ebola victim kept in an isolation tent in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo. The task of vaccinating millions of people in poor and developing countries against COVID-19 faces monumental obstacles, and it's not just a problem of affording and obtaining doses. Rumors flew about the Ebola vaccines, including the idea they were meant to kill people, said Dr. Maurice Kakule, an Ebola survivor who worked in vaccination campaigns. Similar suspicions are spreading about the COVID-19 vaccine, he said. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
Wars, instability pose vaccine challenges in poor nations

By Kathy Gannon, Andrew Meldrum And Lee Keath Dec. 27, 2020 02:08 AM EST

FILE - In this June 11, 2009, file photo, the logo of the World Health Organization is seen at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The head of the World Health Organization says on Friday, Dec, 18, 2020 the U.N. health agency’s program to help get COVID-19 vaccines to all countries in need, has gained access to nearly 2 billion doses of several “promising” vaccine candidates. None of the agreements currently include the vaccines by Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech, which is already in use in the United States, Canada and Britain. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
WHO: Vaccine program gets access to nearly 2 billion doses

By Jamey Keaten Dec. 18, 2020 10:19 AM EST

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 file photo, two year old Akon Morro, who is anemic and suffers from edema due to malnutrition, sits on the floor of a feeding center in Al Sabah Children's Hospital in the capital Juba, South Sudan. Economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has set back two decades of progress against the most severe forms of malnutrition and is likely to kill 168,000 children before a global recovery. That's according to a global study from a coalition of international organizations. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File)
Hunger study predicts 168,000 pandemic-linked child deaths

By Lori Hinnant Dec. 14, 2020 11:24 AM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2019 file photo, a malnourished newborn baby lies in an incubator at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The United Nations Children’s Fund on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, launched a global appeal for a record $2.5 billion of emergency assistance for the Middle East and North Africa, saying the funds were necessary to respond to the needs of millions of children across a region hit hard by conflict, natural disaster and the coronavirus crisis. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
Yemen 'on edge of precipice' as UNICEF launches aid appeal

By Josef Federman Dec. 07, 2020 11:58 AM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2020, file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), gives a statement to the media about the response to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. An email obtained by The Associated Press shows that the World Health Organization has recorded 65 cases of the coronavirus among staff based at its headquarters. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)
UN health chief: World can start dreaming of pandemic's end

By Edith M. Lederer Dec. 04, 2020 05:13 PM EST

FILE - In this July 6, 2020, file photo, Israeli school children wear face masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus as they walk in Tel Aviv, Israel. The global pandemic and ensuing lockdown have taken their toll on the mental and physical well-being of millions of kids in the Middle East and North Africa, the U.N. children's agency said Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
UN: Pandemic tough on millions of Mideast, NAfrican children

By Noha Elhennawy Nov. 20, 2020 05:13 AM EST

Erika Cordero explains a homework assignment to her young charges in the El Atlantico neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Nov, 2, 2020. Cordero, 33, tutors small groups of neighborhood children in her mother's home. They cover everything from long division to reading, said Cordero, who sees too many children falling behind. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
UN: Pandemic threatens Latin America's next generation

By Scott Smith Nov. 09, 2020 09:54 AM EST

Image taken from video showing an aerial view of the UNICEF warehouse, the world's largest humanitarian aid warehouse, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tuesday Oct. 13, 2020. For Burkina Faso, India, Venezuela and other countries with shaky health care delivery systems, the best chance for receiving scarce supplies of a coronavirus vaccine is through the Covax initiative, led by the World Health Organization and the Gavi vaccine alliance. UNICEF began laying the groundwork months ago in Copenhagen, at the world's largest humanitarian aid warehouse. (AP Photo)
Vaccine storage demands could leave 3B people in virus cold

By Lori Hinnant And Sam Mednick Oct. 19, 2020 05:32 AM EDT

A security guard stands by 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 Oct. 19, 2020 03:23 AM EDT

Unused school materials lay on a shelf at a school in the community of Nuevo Yibeljoj, Chiapas state, Mexico, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. Amid the new coronavirus pandemic, Mexican education officials recently said that enrollment for the new school year was down about 10%, but teachers warn that many students enrolled out of habit, but aren't participating. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Pandemic driving children back to work, jeopardizing gains

By María Verza, Carlos Valdez And William Costa Oct. 15, 2020 09:13 AM EDT