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Health challenges

The UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office provides advice and programming support to its 14 country offices and carries out region-wide initiatives. 

UNICEF's regional work focuses on three priority areas:

• the unique needs and aspirations of adolescents, a growing segment of our regional population
• continuing investment in child survival and of reducing further still-high levels of infant mortality in most countries
• working toward reducing regional disparities in access to services and opportunities.