Editing United Nations Foundation (section)

===Global Health===
Global health, often with a focus on women and children, has been one of the UN Foundation’s key global issue areas. Over the Foundation’s first 20 years, 72% of grants fell under the issue area of global health.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=United Nations Foundation at 20 Years|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.unfoundation.org/2019/04/UNF-20yr_report_sp.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.unfoundation.org/2019/04/UNF-20yr_report_sp.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|access-date=27 January 2021|website=}}</ref> The Foundation works closely with private sector partners and UN agencies in order to address a variety of health issues including [[Universal health care|universal health coverage]], [[antimicrobial resistance]], and the response and recovery from [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]]. In addition, the UN Foundation has built partnerships and campaigns to address issues such as [[measles]] and [[rubella]], childhood [[vaccination]], and [[malaria]].

The [[Measles & Rubella Initiative]], launched in 2001, is a partnership between the UN Foundation, the [[American Red Cross]], [[UNICEF]], the [[U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC), and the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) in order to provide measles vaccinations to children across the African continent. This campaign not only focuses on vaccinating children, but also putting into place health infrastructure, and promoting better access to health-care across the continent.<ref>{{citation|author=Phyllis A. Cuttino|title=Where a child dies each minute|date=June–August 2002|publisher=UN Chronicle v.39.2}}</ref> In ten years, the initiative has protected more than 5.5{{nbsp}}billion children from measles.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Measles & Rubella Initiative|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/wp-agility2/measles/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/FACTSHEET-Measles-Updated-2020-09.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://s3.amazonaws.com/wp-agility2/measles/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/FACTSHEET-Measles-Updated-2020-09.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|access-date=27 January 2021|website=}}</ref>

The UN Foundation also runs the [[Nothing But Nets]] Campaign, which is targeted at reducing malaria across the African continent. This campaign originally started when ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' writer Rick Reilley published an article asking his readers to donate money to a campaign to buy mosquito nets for those in Africa suffering from malaria. With support from the UN Foundation, Reilley's project got off the ground, and has to-date provided over 13{{nbsp}}million nets across Africa.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nothing But Nets Champions Head to Washington to Stand Against Proposed Cuts to U.S. Funding to End Malaria|url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/nothing-but-nets-champions-head-to-washington-to-stand-against-proposed-cuts-to-u-s-funding-to-end-malaria-896836223.html|access-date=2021-01-27|website=PRWeb}}</ref> Today, the campaign also encourages Americans to learn about, advocate for, and donate to malaria eradication efforts.

The UN Foundation's Shot@Life campaign educates, connects and empowers Americans to champion vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries. The campaign encourages Americans to learn about, advocate for, and donate vaccines to decrease vaccine-preventable childhood deaths. As of 2019, Shot@Life had protected over $4.1{{nbsp}}billion in U.S. funding for global childhood immunization programs and helped provide more than 82{{nbsp}}million vaccines through direct grant support to UN partners.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=2019 Impact Report|url=https://shotatlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Annual-Highlights-2019-Insert.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://shotatlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Annual-Highlights-2019-Insert.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|access-date=|website=Shot@Life}}</ref>

The UN Foundation is a communications and advocacy partner for the [[Global Polio Eradication Initiative]], a partnership that includes [[Rotary International]], the [[Gates Foundation]], UNICEF, CDC, and WHO. The initiative is dedicated to globally eradicating polio through vaccinations and has protected 2{{nbsp}}billion children from polio.

Every Woman Every Child was launched by UN Secretary-General [[Ban Ki-moon]] during the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit in 2010 and aims to save and improve the lives of millions of women, children and adolescents around the world by 2030. It is a global effort to mobilize international and national action by governments, multilaterals, the private sector and civil society to address health challenges facing women and children around the world.

In March 2020, at the onset of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], the UN Foundation launched the [[COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund]] in partnership with the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation to raise funds for WHO’s COVID-19 response. The fund raised over $200{{nbsp}}million within six weeks, which went toward WHO’s efforts to track and understand the spread of the virus, to mobilize protective equipment to frontline health workers, and to develop vaccines, tests, and treatments.<ref>{{Cite web|title=WHO, UN Foundation and partners launch first-of-its-kind COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund|url=https://www.who.int/news/item/13-03-2020-who-un-foundation-and-partners-launch-first-of-its-kind-covid-19-solidarity-response-fund|access-date=2021-01-27|website=www.who.int|language=en}}</ref> Beneficiaries of the fund were later expanded to include UNICEF, the [[Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations]] (CEPI), the [[World Food Programme]] (WFP), the [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees|UN Refugee Agency]] (UNHCR), and the [[UNRWA|United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East]] (UNRWA). The foundation also helped raise funds for the [[Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator]] campaign by accepting donations through the ACT Together Fund.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=ACT Together Fund |url=https://unfoundation.org/acttogetherfund/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818045047/https://unfoundation.org/acttogetherfund/ |archive-date=2021-08-18 |access-date=2022-08-18 |website=United Nations Foundation}}</ref>

In September 2020, the UN Foundation launched its Unite for Health campaign, focused on the need for global collaboration amidst the disruption of health systems and services due to COVID-19, and the rollback of global health progress it brought.