UNICEF is committed to protecting children's rights and improving their health globally. It was created in 1946 to provide emergency aid to children devastated by World War II. Since then, UNICEF has made progress in child healthcare initiatives like immunization and oral rehydration. UNICEF works with governments and organizations worldwide to address threats to children's health from preventable diseases. Its goal is ensuring all children can survive and develop to their full potential.

1. UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund )
Done by: Bryant Lim, Daniel Chng,
Tan Wen Xuan and Pua Xuan Ming

2. Introductionfor children. It
UNICEF is committed to changing the world
strives to protect their rights, improve their health, and nurture
their development through sound planning and monitoring of
policy results.
UNICEF was created by the United Nations General Assembly on
December 11, 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare
to children in countries that had been devastated by
World War II. Improving the health of children is one
responsibility among many in the fight against poverty. Healthy
children become healthy adults: people who create better lives
for themselves, their communities and their countries.
Improving the health of the world's children is a core UNICEF
objective. Since our founding, we have made significant
progress in immunization, oral
rehydration to save the lives of
infants with severe diarrhoea,
promoting and protecting breastfeeding,
fighting HIV/AIDS, micronutrient
supplementation and health education.

3. Introduction (Continued)
UNICEF has an extensive global health presence, and strong partnerships
with governments and non-governmental organizations at national and
community levels. UNICEF understands the reasons why children are
dying. On a daily basis we work to bring practical solutions to the women
and children at greatest risk. UNICEF knows what it takes to ensure the
survival and health of children and women.
UNICEF approaches all of the threats to child health – and there are
many – with extensive experience, efficient logistics and creativity.
In some developing countries, the toll is so harsh that more than one in
five children die before they reach their fifth birthday. Many of those
who do survive are unable to grow and develop to their full potential.
Most deaths result from five causes, or a combination of them: acute
respiratory infections (ARI), diarrhoea, measles, malaria and
malnutrition.
Poverty and the failure to ensure universal access
to basic social services are to blame.
Together with governments, humanitarian agencies,
civil and community leaders, families and children
themselves, UNICEF is addressing these threats.

4. History
-UNICEF is created in December 1946 by the United Nations to provide
food, clothing and health care to children.
-UNICEF begins a successful global campaign against yaws, a
disfiguring disease affecting millions of children, and one that can be
cured with penicillin.
-Following more than a decade of focus on child health issues, UNICEF
expands its interests to address the needs of the whole child. Thus
begins an abiding concern with education, starting with support to
teacher training and classroom equipment in newly independent
countries.
-people and organizations reaffirm their commitment to children’s rights
-NICEF launches a drive to save the lives of millions of children each
year. The ‘revolution’ is based on four simple, low-cost techniques:
growth monitoring, oral rehydration therapy, breastfeeding and
immunization
-The Say Yes for Children campaign builds on this momentum, with
millions of children and adults around the world pledging their support
for critical actions to improve children’s lives

5. Impact of venture
• Improve lives of children suffering from diseases
• Produced by UNICEF, UNAIDS and WHO, the report
notes promising developments - increasing numbers of
children receiving treatment, declining HIV prevalence
among young people resulting from behavioural
change, and the integration of children and AIDS into
national policy frameworks. Yet it also highlights the
huge gaps in progress that remain and seeks to
explore how the campaign must move forward in 2007
in order to achieve its ambitious goals.

6. Credits
• http://www.unicef.org/health/index.html
• http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_38048.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicef
Done by: Bryant Lim, Daniel Chng, Tan Wen Xuan
and Pua Xuan Ming