With the COVID-19 pandemic entering its fourth year, we asked UNICEF health experts to explain what we now know about the best ways for pregnant women to protect themselves and their babies.
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The methodology for this report included a literature review of available documentation and research, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions with UNICEF country and regional offices and partners. The process led to a series of six case studies, which describe predominantly positive campaign experiences, documenting lessons and good practices that can inform future immunisation programmes carried out during COVID-19 or similar circumstances.
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It is completely safe for a mother with confirmed or suspected of COVID-19 to breastfeed.
Source: Can you breastfeed if you have COVID-19?
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Here’s how children in India are feeling about learning at home during COVID-19.
Source: Education during COVID-19
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Being a parent is a daily challenge and faced with the realities of COVID 19, social distancing and self-quarantine, it may be a struggle. For parents, the best way to help their children is to firstly take care of themselves.
Self-care during these times is not selfish because it enables the caregivers to be there for their children as a stable, calm and soothing parent. This way, parents will also be able to better understand their children and help them feel reassured, relaxed and focused.
Source: How is COVID-19 affecting parents’ mental health
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Athishree was scared, hesitant to even talk to her friends when she first tested positive for #coronavirus.
While in quarantine, she taught herself the importance of opening up about her experiences.
Source: How Athishree coped with COVID-19
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We all have to stay ready. Only together can we win against COVID-19.
Source: We all have to stay ready. Anthem to overcome COVID-19 ft. Amitabh Bachchan & Priyanka Chopra Jonas
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This video explains how a mother can safely breastfeed if she is suspected/confirmed to have COVID-19?
Source: How to breastfeed safely if you have COVID-19?
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Throughout 2021, CARE launched 45 locally-led campaigns in 20 countries applying lessons learned during an eight-week training series with Meta. In the second half of 2021, participating countries built on their learnings from their first campaigns and attempted to answer new questions that arose all while creating culturally appropriate messaging to encourage the adoption of preventative behaviors and/or to build trust in the vaccine, even if it wasn’t yet available.
Source: COVID-19 and Meta: Social and Behavioral Change Communication Learnings from 20 Countries
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These resources were used by SNEHA (Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action) to educate people living in vulnerable urban informal settlements about COVID-19 Appropriate behaviour. These resources were used at a time when India was braving the first and second wave of the pandemic.
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