UNICEF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does UNICEF mean? 

• UNICEF (noun)
  The noun UNICEF has 1 sense:

1. an agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries

  Familiarity information: UNICEF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNICEF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

UNICEF; United Nations Children's Fund; United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund

Hypernyms ("UNICEF" is a kind of...):

UN agency; United Nations agency (an agency of the United Nations)

 Context examples 

“The results of adding high-dose vitamin D3 to the regular treatment for malnutrition are a first, and not previously studied,” says Aida Girma-Melaku, UNICEF representative in Pakistan.

(Vitamin D3 boost helps treat child malnutrition, SciDev.Net)

Diarrhoeal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under five years of age and is responsible for killing some 525,000 children every year, according to the WHO, while UNICEF says nearly 60 per cent of deaths due to diarrhoea worldwide are attributable to unsafe drinking water and poor hygiene and sanitation.

(Chlorine dispensers fitted to public taps cut child diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)