United Nations Children's Fund

Community barriers, perceptions, and health-seeking behaviors within the one health approach in six priority districts of Rwanda: a descriptive qualitative study

Rwanda’s health security can only be strengthened through integrated One Health approaches that link human, animal, and environmental health. Emerging health threats such as the Marburg Virus highlight the urgency, yet fragmented systems, weak coordination, and behavioral barrier...

Where is the evidence? A global systematic review of sanitation system resilience to climate hazards

Despite sustained efforts over several decades, no region is projected to achieve universal sanitation access by 2030, according to international monitoring frameworks. Climate change is increasingly disrupting human and ecological systems, in turn deepening existing inequalities...

Factors associated with institutional delivery among married women aged 15–49 years in a remote district of Nooristan Province, Afghanistan: A cross-sectional household survey, 2021

Institutional delivery is a proven intervention for reducing maternal and neonatal deaths, yet rates remain low in remote provinces such as Nooristan. This study assessed the prevalence and factors associated with institutional delivery among married women in Paroon district, Noo...

A Cycle of Gendered Vulnerability: Understanding Violence, Poverty, and Systemic Failure Among Refugee Women in Malawi

Gender-based violence (GBV) is an urgent global health and social problem. GBV has implications for women's health outcomes and causes disruption to an individual's ecosystem, including their educational attainment, economic stability, and safety. Refugee women are an underserved...

Vaccine Cold Chain Performance Across Seven Provinces and Two Seasons in Nepal: Findings from a Nationwide Temperature Monitoring Study

Background: Maintaining vaccines at 2–8 °C from manufacture to administration is a prerequisite for potency, yet cold chain failures remain common in low- and middle-income countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that every country conduct a temperature monitori...

Exploring Priority Intrapartum Services Associated with Childbirth Experience During Vaginal Birth: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study

Background: A woman’s childbirth experience is important to her health and family well-being. Evidence-based intrapartum care may support a positive experience. When resources are constrained, identifying services that are most strongly associated with childbirth experience may h...

Mapping Upstream Strategies: Monitoring Policy Influence Using Interorganizational Network Analysis

Policy influence is produced through relationships among government agencies, civil society organizations, donors, international organizations, and other actors rather than through formal authority alone. Yet conventional monitoring systems often struggle to observe these upstrea...

A large-language-model framework for automated humanitarian situation reporting

Timely and accurate situational reports are essential for humanitarian decision-making, yet current workflows remain largely manual, resource intensive, and inconsistent. We present a fully automated framework that uses large language models (LLMs) to transform heterogeneous huma...

Telephone versus in-person administration of the Early Childhood Development Index 2030: a crossover study, Brazil, Canada, India and Malawi.

Objective: To examine agreement between telephone and in-person administration of the Early Childhood Development Index 2030 (ECDI2030) survey. Methods: -tests and intraclass correlation coefficients. Findings: : -0.36), regardless of modality. However, pooled and stratified intr...