COVID-19 Advocacy

Please see below for previous examples of our work on the impact of COVID-19 on child health

If you are working on any similar projects and would like to collaborate please get in touch!

What do children across the world make of the COVID-19 pandemic? A Children’s Priority Focus project

The health and well-being of children is being given insufficient priority during this pandemic. ICHG has produced this video to bring together children’s voices around the globe, letting us know what they think. A big thank you to all the children that starred in this video!

ICHG Statement on Sharing COVID-19 Vaccines and Patent Waiver 7th May 2021

We call on the UK government to immediately share the UK’s Covid-19 vaccines where they are needed most, and support India’s request to remove Intellectual Property barriers to COVID-19 tool production. It is not right that while other countries face vaccine shortages amidst rapidly increasing deaths rates, we in the UK are planning to vaccinate low risk people during a waning epidemic, before sharing them.

ICHG + RCPCH Global COVID-19 Advocacy Statement 5th October 2020

Mothers, newborns and children, especially in the poorest countries, are suffering significant indirect impacts on health and care as a result of COVID-19, with potentially long-term adverse effects. Despite direct effects on children from the COVID-19 virus being rare so far, the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide could be catastrophic for children, with considerable excess death and suffering.