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29 September 2023

Resilient Communities, Stronger Future

UNICEF India and USAID successfully partnered to support the Government of India in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and continued with support till March 2021. The interventions implemented under the partnership covering Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana and Andhra P...

Childhood immunization begins recovery after COVID-19 backslide

GENEVA/NEW YORK, 18 July 2023 – Global immunization services reached 4 million more children in 2022 compared to the previous year, as countries stepped up efforts to address the historic backsliding in immunization caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to data published today by the World Health Organization...

Weekly surveillance of wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 gene detection for pandemic curve monitoring

This study was conducted as a weekly surveillance of wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 to gather evidence about the COVID-19 situation at the community level. The surveillance study was carried out in the Ahmedabad city of Gujarat state in India. Given that up to 67 per cent of infected people showed SARS-CoV2 presence ...

Rapid assessment on the continuation of basic WASH services during COVID-19 in India (2021)

COVID-19 impacted countries across the globe to varying degrees. In India, the pandemic led to the government imposing a nationwide lockdown starting on 24 March 2020, during which almost all activities came to a standstill for the subsequent months. During the pandemic, it became very clear early on that COVID-19...

Social mobilizers combat vaccine hesitancy:

COVID-19 has significantly impacted billions of people worldwide. In the face of these unprecedented challenges, district administrations, municipal corporations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and their dedicated mobilizers have played a pivotal role in combating the coronavirus and addressing its detrime...

THE STATE OF THE WORLD ’S CHILDREN 2023

The world is facing a red alert for children’s health: Vaccination coverage dropped sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving millions more children unprotected against some of childhood’s most serious diseases. In addition, many millions of children from some of the world’s most marginalized communities have ...

UNICEF Flagship Report highlights new data on India’s gains in vaccines confidence amidst large scale decline of confidence in childhood vaccines following COVID-19 pandemic

NEW DELHI, 20 April 2023 – UNICEF India today released the agency’s global flagship report ‘The State of the World’s Children 2023: For Every Child, Vaccination,’ highlighting the significance of childhood immunization. Based on new data collected by The Vaccine Confidence Project* (London School of Hygiene and Tr...

Compendium of human Interest stories

Expanding access to immunization is crucial to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Immunization is one of the most efficient and cost-effective ways to protect children’s lives. More than half of the world’s most vulnerable children still miss out on the essential vaccines they need to survive and...

25 January 2023

Oxygen Generation Plants: Saving lives beyond COVID-19

BIHAR, India - When 11-year-old Satyam was rushed to the trauma centre of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital in Patna, Bihar, he had difficulty breathing and was extremely restless. Satyam’s mother, Reena Kumaria nurse in the same hospital—was well aware of the danger signs. “My son had pulmonary aspiration—he...

24 January 2023

Not all heroes take the center stage; some work in the background, in a lab

Behind closed doors in AIIMS, Patna (Bihar) and ICMR-RMRC, Dibrugarh (Assam), groups of dedicated technicians, doctors and researchers worked non-stop through the multiple waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. PATNA, DIBRUGARH- The enemy was powerful, and while the soldiers had valour within, they were in uncharted wate...

29 December 2022

Assessing Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic

This report was generated as part of a longitudinal Community-Based Monitoring (CBM) mechanism, implemented in partnership with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and civil society volunteers to gather evidence directly from families affected by COVID-19. A CBM mechanism, deploying remote data collection modalitie...

16 September 2022

Duur Se Namaste, a new television series, promotes healthy behaviors in a post-pandemic world

NEW DELHI, September 16, 2022: Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and UNICEF formally launched the Doordarshan and YouTube series titled Duur Se Namaste ( “Greetings from a distance!” ) at an event held today in New Delhi. Duur Se Namaste, a fictional Hindi series developed in an entertai...