PEDIATRICS Vol. 6 No. 2 August 1950, pp. 317-320
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THE UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY FUND

Editors: JOHN P. HUBBARD, M.D..

IN THE "Economic Cooperation Act of 1950," Congress has included an authorization of $15,000,000 with broad authority to the President to make contributions to the United Nations for international children's needs in the fields of health and welfare. Congress indicated that it expects the President "to use his authority prudently with a view to actual needs and to the desirability of the earliest practicable transfer of the international childen's welfare programs concerned from the present temporary agency to a permanent arrangement within the United Nations framework." Thus Congress has taken an important step to assure continuation of the work of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) which is so essential to millions of the world's children.

This Fund, cooperating with foreign countries, has been most effective in helping to supply milk or a daily supplementary meal to many millions of children and pregnant mothers. In cooperation with the U. N. World Health Organization, the Fund has undertaken with the Danish Red Cross and its Scandinavian associates a mass antituberculosis BCG vaccination program for European children. This campaign is unprecedented in the international public health field and should eventually yield results not only in the reduction of tuberculosis on a vast scale, but also in adding greatly to our knowledge of BCG vaccination.