By Whitney Simon | Assistant Director, Global Cause Partnerships
Dear Friend,
Dedicated supports like you enable UNICEF to be at the forefront of ending the COVID-19 pandemic while doing everything possible to prevent the next one. Investing in UNICEF’s pandemic response means you are helping to ensure that vaccines, tests, treatments and PPE get to the communities and people who need them most. In addition, you are supporting UNICEF to improve health systems in many ways, including strengthening the cold chain and providing further training for health care workers.
Thanks to your support, significant progress has been made in the fight against COVID-19. Over 1.5 billion vaccines have been delivered to 145 countries and territories. With your assistance, UNICEF works with governments, manufacturers, and partners to ensure that when countries receive vaccines, they can get them to people quickly, and turn vaccines into vaccinations. UNICEF and partners are now focused on closing the gap in 34 priority countries so that we can end the pandemic.
It is also critical to strengthen and build resilient health systems globally. While systems strengthening has always been integral to UNICEF’s work, the COVID-19 pandemic has affirmed just how crucial it is. Continuing to support the health sector is critical both to ending the pandemic and addressing a diversity of threats to child survival and development. COVID-19 has threatened decades of hard-won gains for children’s health. Immunizations against preventable diseases like tetanus, polio, and measles have been disrupted. Caregivers held back on seeking care for chronic issues to avoid the risk of a COVID-19 infection. These interruptions exposed the fragility of local and national systems around the world. It’s been a stark reminder of the need to build resilient health systems globally. With your support, UNICEF is strengthening health systems to ensure children all over the world survive and thrive.
As always, thank you for standing with UNICEF USA in our relentless pursuit of an equitable world for children.
Sincerely,
Whitney
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