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Polio: no place too far
This photo feature demonstrates the enormous challenge in reaching children in the high risk areas of Bihar. The trip to Sunita, a polio-affected child in Saharsa in the Kosi river area, was undertaken by SMNet Bihar team members.

The girl child in India
This photo essay showcases the lives of fourteen girls living in fourteen different states in India and shows what they all have in common – the constant struggle to get an education. Mithu Goswami, 8, from Assam, has had health problems since birth.

Eradicating Polio
India currently has 185 cases out of which 136 belong to the P3 strain virus – Uttar Pradesh has 133 of these. Bihar does not have a single P3 case at the moment and the P1 monovalent vaccine continues to be used in the state.

Girl Stars
UNICEF India in partnership with NGO “Going to School”, launched ‘Girl Stars’, a multi-media project .

60 years of progress for children
UNICEF's milestone progress in India over the last 60 years. With joyful learning and awareness about HIV/AIDS, UNICEF has left its mark in different segments of Indian society.

Girls' Education: Returning to Thangaselvi
Thangaselvi’s family and her teachers played an important part to the recovery and seemed to provide a matriarchal support system for the sisters to help the children over-come the loss of their mother and regain some sense of normality to their lives

Child Survival in India: A Serious Issue
An Unacceptabley large number of newborns and young children in India die unnecessarily. Teenage pregnancies, continuous physical labour, malnutrition, ill health and lack of rest put mother and baby at great risk.

Polio campaign underway!
An intensive polio campaign is underway across several states in India this week to fight back against a polio outbreak. 60 cases have been reported so far this year. This photo essay captures images of Polio Sunday in Moradabad, western Uttar Pradesh.

UNICEF IKEA Child Labour Elimination Project
India has the highest number of child labourers, under the age of 14, in the world. In partnership with IKEA, UNICEF is implementing a child labour elimination project in the carpet weaving belt of Uttar Pradesh. These images are from the project.

Malnutrition - India's silent crisis
Despite remarkable improvement in India on almost all fronts since the country's independence, undernutrition remains one of the most critical challenges for development planners today.

Child survival - the need of the hour
In India roughly two-thirds of infant deaths occur in the first month of life. Underlying causes of infant and maternal deaths include insufficient home care, failure to seek appropriate assistance, and inadequate access to quality health care.

Fluorosis - mitigating the scourge
More and more children are getting affected by Fluorosis due to high fluoride content in water as well as some food crops irrigated by fluoride contaminated water from tube-wells in the districts of Jhabua and Dhar in the state of Madhya Pradesh.

Maternal Mortality - the challenges
This photo essay is a glimpse into the lives of pregnant women in rural India and their day-to-day trials, irrespective of the region they belong to.

Polio Immunisation Day - Ferozabad (Uttar Pradesh) 26 February 2006
This photo essay by UNICEF’s Michael Galway captures some of the women at work mobilizing children to the polio booth in Ferozabad city, western Uttar Pradesh on Polio Sunday, 26 February 2006.

Children going back to school
UNICEF is assisting the tsunami ravaged areas of Cuddalore and Nagapattinam districts in the state of Tamil Nadu to `build back better’ by providing books, toys, school furniture, and also psychological support to the children affected by the tsunami.