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Mali, one of the world's poorest nations, is greatly affected by poverty, malnutrition, epidemics, and inadequate hygiene and sanitation. Mali's health and development indicators rank among the worst in the world, with little improvement over the last 20 years. [1] Progress is impeded by Mali's poverty [2] and by a lack of physicians. [3]
The Bamako Initiative is a joint World Health Organization/ United Nations Children's Fund (WHO/UNICEF) Initiative aimed at solving the problems in the financing of primary health care in sub-Saharan Africa. It was launched in September 1987 at a regional WHO meeting, where Mr Grant, director of UNICEF, dealt with the severe economic crises ...
Website. www.undp.org. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) [note 1] is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development. The UNDP emphasizes on developing local capacity towards long-term self-sufficiency and prosperity.
U.N. agency appeals for aid to help Haiti weather hurricane season. June 7, 2024 at 8:58 PM (Reuters) - UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency, appealed on Friday for international aid to help prepare ...
A 2002 UNICEF study shows FGM prevalence among 99% of Muslim, 89% of Catholic and 85% of Protestant women aged 15–49 years. [59] Eritrea outlawed all forms of female genital mutilation with Proclamation 158/2007 in March 2007. [40] [97] The law envisions a fine and imprisonment for anyone conducting or commissioning FGM. [98]
In Mali, maternal mortality and infant mortality are very high. Studies conducted by UNICEF have shown that out of 1200 women who get pregnant each day, 230 experience complications and 20 die. [15] Early marriage, lack of family planning, very high fertility, and female genital mutilation contribute to women's ill health.
UNICEF (/ ˈjuːniˌsɛf / YOO-nee-SEF), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, [ a ] is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide. [ 3 ][ 4 ] The organization is one of the most widely ...
A UNICEF worker is distributing high-calorie food during an emergency situation in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2008. Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance, usually in the short-term, to people in need. Among the people in need are the homeless, refugees, and victims of natural disasters, wars, and famines.