Le reportage du correspondant de l’UNICEF, Thomas Nybo , sur la façon dont la responsable d’un dispensaire pour adolescents de Port-au-Prince, le Dr Rachel Bertrand, s’est donné pour mission d’améliorer la prise en charge des enfant et des jeunes adultes séropositifs en Haïti.

Par Thomas Nybo

À Port-au-Prince, en Haïti, un dispensaire pour adolescents offre, entre autres prestations, prise en charge, soutien et informations pour les jeunes qui sont séropositifs.

Highlights

• UNICEF has delivered supply worth 1.2 million US$ for immediate assistance to 50,000 new returnees and refugees in the border area of Tissi following renewed violence in Darfur, Sudan

• 40,540 Severe Acute Malnutrition new admissions have been registered as of April, representing 32.2% of the 127,000 admissions expected in 2013

Twenty-one million children in school thanks to efforts

NEW YORK, 17 June 2013 – UNICEF, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Peter Krämer Foundation today kicked off a new fundraising drive to raise US$80 million to help Africa’s girls, orphans, children living in extreme poverty and other vulnerable children go to school and get a quality education.

UNICEF urgently requires close to US$ 116.5m to undertake the following priority interventions over the next three months:

UNICEF correspondent Thomas Nybo reports on how head of an adolescent clinic in Port-au-Prince Dr. Rachel Bertrand is on a mission to improve the care of HIV-positive children and young adults in Haiti.

By Thomas Nybo

An adolescent clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, provides care, support and education for youth who are HIV-positive, among other services.

A UNICEF report recommends how to realize the rights of Syrian refugees in Jordan. It focuses on several areas, including child protection, gender-based violence and mental health.

Highlights

The violence inside Syria continues to escalate with UNOHCHR reporting that the number of deaths due to the conflict has now reached over 93,000 since March 2011. Of these, 6,561 are children, of whom 1,729 are under the age of 10. During the reporting period, the UN launched a revised appeal for US$4.4bn for its response to the crisis. UNICEF requires some $470 million to the end of December to maintain its lifesaving support to the children of Syria.

Bamako, 12 June 2013 – As part of response to humanitarian emergencies, the UNICEF Representative in Mali, Françoise Aackermans and the WHO Representative in Mali, Dr. Ibrahima Socé Fall, met on 11 June 2013 to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two agencies of the United Nations. The MoU sets out a framework for collaboration, specifying the roles of each agency in the implementation of the joint plan.

NUEVA YORK, 12 de junio de 2013 – El 12 de junio es el Día Mundial contra el Trabajo Infantil. Hoy, como cualquier otro día del año, millones de niños de todo el mundo se dedican a algún tipo de trabajo peligroso o en el que son explotados, por lo general a expensas de su salud y su educación y, sobre todo, de su bienestar general y desarrollo.