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UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Catherine Russell concluded a three-day visit to Chad on Monday, where she met with refugee children and families displaced by the fighting and chaos ...

The Department of Education is ramping up efforts to strengthen foundational learning from Kindergarten to Grade 3 as part of ...

Registering the birth of a newborn, which is taken for granted in many countries, has profound lifelong repercussions for a child's health, protection, and well-being. But after initially increasing ...

While Prime Minister James Marape offered France a Special Economic Zone in Port Moresby (SEZ) for French businesses, he also named the lookout at Port Moresby's Variarata National Park after ...

Papua New Guinea's health minister, Elias Kapavore, says polio vaccines are set to arrive in the country next week. The World Health Organisation declared an outbreak of the disease in PNG last month.

The situation is complicated by Papua New Guinea's geography, explains Andrew Musyoki Sammy, Nutrition Manager at UNICEF. “In PNG more than 86% of the population live in rural areas, 40 to 50% of ...

UNICEF Papua New Guinea Chief of Protection Paula Vargas pointed out that the country has the lowest birth and death registration levels in the Asia-Pacific region. “Only 13 percent of children are ...

The PNG government has responded swiftly to activate its polio emergency response plan, supported by partners including WHO, UNICEF and the Australian government.

UNICEF has ramped up support of the Government of Papua New Guinea with a vaccination drive aimed at children in response to the detection of poliovirus after a national emergency response was ...

In Papua New Guinea, however, many children remain vulnerable due to low immunisation rates, according to Dr Veera Mendonca, UNICEF’s representative in the country.