At least 2,000 minors spent International Children s Day, 01 June, without their families in northern Mozambique, due to the armed conflict in that region, according to the United Nations Children s Fund (Unicef) in Mozambique.
Since 2017 the armed violence in Cabo Delgado has separated children from their families, according to Claudio Julaia, emergency specialist for the UNICEF in Mozambique. The needs of these children are immense. They need food assistance and shelter as well as psychological support, he added.
Most of the 2,000 children are sheltered in the homes of displaced families with solidarity in reception centers, but according to UNICEF, it is not an easy process .
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Drop in child vaccinations a danger
South Africa needs to drastically improve its data capturing, surveillance and monitoring of immunisation for children under the age of five to prevent outbreaks of measles and whooping cough against which they are underprotected.
This emerged last week from interviews with some of the country’s top paediatricians, virologists and public health specialists.
They were speaking after the health department said during Global Immunisation Week that its child hexavalent and measles inoculation doses fall below acceptable targets for maximum effect. The hexavalent vaccine protects children against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), poliomyelitis, Haemophilus influenza type B and hepatitis B.