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The country also has the largest number of people waiting for access to safe sanitation at a staggering number of 774 million.

India must act before water runs out

The country breaks out in a cold sweat every time the monsoon is delayed.

23 Aug 2017 1:45 AM IST

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World Breastfeeding Week: Sustaining breastfeeding together!

Breast milk contains antibodies that help the baby fight off viruses and bacteria.

2 Aug 2017 1:09 PM IST

With the easy-to-use Mama-Ope kit, health workers merely have to slip the jacket onto the child, and its sensors will pick up sound patterns from the lungs, temperature and breathing rate.

Ugandans design 'smart jacket' to diagnose pneumonia

The idea came to Olivia Koburongo, 26, after her grandmother fell ill, and was moved from hospital to hospital before...

22 Jan 2017 12:53 PM IST

Government is all set to introduce two major vaccines the measles-rubella (MR) and pneumococcal in the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP).

Two new vaccines to tackle under-5 mortality rate

As per the government statistics, the rubella infection approximately affects 25,000 children every year in India.

22 Jan 2017 2:12 AM IST

UNICEF appoints Lilly Singh as its Goodwill Ambassador. (Photo: PTI)

UNICEF appoints Indian-origin Lilly Singh as Global Goodwill...

28-year-old star has started new initiative on social media -#GirlLove- which aims to end girl-on-girl hate.

15 July 2017 2:52 PM IST

2.1 billion people do not have access to clean water. (Photo: Pexels)

2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water at home: report

New research also reveals more than twice as many lack safe sanitation.

13 July 2017 6:13 PM IST

Priyanka Chopra

Mandela, Gandhi very influential in my life: Priyanka Chopra

She urged people not to concentrate on the statistics but to think about what could be done as individuals to save...

8 May 2017 10:52 AM IST

Priyanka with one of the families she met during her trip to Zimbabwe for UNICEF (Pic courtesy: Instagram/ priyankachopra).

Priyanka visits Zimbabwe as UNICEF ambassador, horrified by child sex...

She shared horrific details about child sexual abuse after visiting Zimbabwe as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador.

7 May 2017 4:29 PM IST

Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka to attend UNICEF gala in South Africa

UNICEF South Africa Ambassador Jo-Ann Strauss will moderate the event.

3 May 2017 8:34 AM IST

Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. (Photo: AP)

Hillary Clinton: The comeback queen?

The former first lady also 'brings all that star power that de Blasio does not have,' a political science professor...

18 Jan 2017 10:12 AM IST

Government is all set to introduce two major vaccines the measles-rubella (MR) and pneumococcal in the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP).

Pneumonia vaccine to be part of immunisation plan

Nearly 25 per cent of the 1.4m children below the age of five that die every year globally due to the disease are from...

13 May 2017 3:17 AM IST

Several mothers appealed to the government to let them sell their milk to the company, Khun Meada. (Photo: Representational/AP)

UNICEF decries sale of Cambodian breast milk to US mothers

The agency spokeswoman in Cambodia pointed out that breast milk banks should not operate by exploiting poor women for...

22 March 2017 1:21 PM IST