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Reaching Out to the Unreached

UNICEF is collaborating with the Maharashtra Government to ensure that the routine immunisation programme reaches the most vulnerable children belonging to marginalised, nomadic communities in urban Maharashtra Frontline health workers supported by UNICEF have persistently campaigned for the last two years in Chha...

Helping Frontline Health Workers Make a Difference

Over the past two years, field-level health workers under the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (formerly Aurangabad) and Nashik in Maharashtra have been displaying a new level of confidence and enthusiasm while planning and executing routine immunisation (RI) and other health car...

Building Up Trust, One Brick at a Time

Every house is constructed brick by brick. The health workers of CIDCO Primary Health Centre in Nashik, with guidance and support from UNICEF personnel, applied this simple logic in their approach to winning support for routine immunisation of children among a unique community of migrant brick kiln workers in Pawa...

11 January 2024

Health workers in rural Assam are braving the odds to inoculate children

Assam: For 23-year-old Reshmina Khatun, a front yard filled with heaps of freshly minted bricks, a temporary tin-walled hut, and a shared tubewell among 35 households were not the perfect settings to welcome her first baby. In August this year, Reshmina and her husband Izajul Haque, who hail from a remote village ...

03 January 2024

UNICEF, Dainik Jagran come together for Critical Appraisal Skills Workshop to work towards reducing number of zero-dose children

NEW DELHI, 27 December 2023 – Over 60 media professionals from Dainik Jagran from all over India attended a one-day workshop held here on evidence-based health journalism focusing on Routine Immunization for children organized by UNICEF in partnership with Dainik Jagran, today. The journalists from Dainik Jagran, ...

03 January 2024

UNICEF, Amar Ujala hold Critical Appraisal Skills Workshop focusing on reaching the last mile of children with lifesaving routine immunization

JAIPUR, 28 December 2023 – Over 25 media professionals from Amar Ujala from across India participated in a one-day workshop held today on evidence-based health journalism focusing on Routine Immunization for children organized by UNICEF in partnership with Amar Ujala. The journalists from Amar Ujala from the state...

26 December 2023

Alternate Vaccine Delivery reaches India’s most Climate Vulnerable District

Safely secured in blue-coloured boxes, and carefully balanced on a motorbike, life-saving vaccines reach the most hard-to-reach regions of Assam, India, thanks to the tireless efforts of people like Enamul Haque, who are part of the Alternate Vaccine Delivery (AVD) system. Thanks to 26-year-old Haque, who hails fr...

22 December 2023

UNICEF-Radio4Child engage radio to champion for Immunization and Child Protection

BHOPAL, 22 December 2023 – UNICEF India successfully concluded a two-day workshop aimed at building the capacity of radio professionals from across India on the critical themes of Immunization and Child Protection. Conducted as part of the Radio4Child initiative, from 21-22 December, the workshop acknowledged the ...

Media’s role as frontline champions in IMI 5.0: A fight against Measles and Rubella

NEW DELHI, 27 July 2023 – A capacity-building workshop aimed at equipping media professionals with the tools to counter vaccine hesitancy and encourage vaccine uptake concluded here, today. The workshop, organized by UNICEF in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), was held ahead of In...

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...

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 ...