UNICEF and Children's Welfare

Health

Among the many fights against poverty, improving children’s’ health is one of the major responsibilities. A healthy child becomes a healthy adult, a person who has the ability to create a better life for them, the people around them, their community, and their countries. One of the core UNICEF objectives is to improve the health of the children of the world.

Most of the children deaths occur due to pneumonia, preterm birth complications, intra-partum related complications, diarrhea and malaria. The issues that prevails, is the fact that universal access to basic social services is not available, and poverty.

UNICEF is addressing these threats as it works with the governments, humanitarian agencies, civil and community leaders, families and children themselves. Throughout the world UNICEF has joined hands with governments and non-governmental organizations at national and community levels maintaining its extensive global presence.

Though there has been significant progress, there lie many obstacles that are slowly being hurdled over and removed by UNICEF, and is bringing the world on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal target of two-thirds reduction in the rate of child mortality by 2015.

HIV and AIDS

“An estimated 34.0 million [31.4 million–35.9 million] people were living with HIV as of 2011; 3.3 million [3.1 million–3.8 million] of them were children under 15 years, and about 16.7 million [15.4 million–17.6 million] were women (see Global Summary table, below). Every day, nearly 7,000 persons became infected with HIV and nearly 5,000 persons died from AIDS, mostly because of inadequate access to HIV prevention care and treatment services.

As of 2011, roughly 17.3 million children under the age...

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Works Cited

http://www.unicef.org/emergencies/index_68710.html

http://www.unicef.org/education/bege_59826.html

http://www.unicef.org/wash/

http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/index_bigpicture.html

http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/

http://www.unicef.org/immunization/

http://www.unicef.org/immunization/index_bigpicture.html

http://www.unicef.org/aids/index_55821.html

http://www.unicef.org/health/index_bigpicture.html

http://www.childinfo.org/hiv_aids.html

http://www.unicef.org/socialpolicy/

http://www.unicef.org/disabilities/

http://www.unicef.org/protection/57929_57990.html

http://www.unicef.org/adolescence/index_66834.html

http://www.unicef.org/protection/57929_57990.html

http://www.unicef.org/media/files/ChildPovertyReport.pdf

http://www.unicef.org/about/who/index_introduction.html

http://www.unicef.org/adolescence/index_66834.html