In Khellong village under Nafra Community Health Centre, a WHO team worked with health workers, community mobilisers and local influencers to reach vaccine-hesitant families in their homes and encourage them to get their children vaccinated. As a result, eight children received life-saving vaccines, with two of them catching up on missed measles-rubella doses. (Photo: Nima Tsering Bapu / © WHO India)

September 2025 | West Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh WHO teams monitored immunization outreach sessions in Ditchik village under Nafra Community Health Centre, on 8 September. Home visits and counselling of parents led to eight children being immunized in the village, categorized as a ‘high-risk area’ because of vaccine-hesitancy among some families. (Photo: Nima Tsering Bapu / © WHO India)

WHO field monitoring teams identified Mopa Tea village under Community Health Centre Kanubari near the Assam-Arunachal as a high-risk area due to its high migration population. The WHO team identified two newly-settled families with children who had missed immunization doses. A pregnant woman in her third trimester who had not undergone any ante-natal check-up was also identified and counselled on the importance of ANC, regular check-ups, and institutional delivery. (Photo: Lemkai Arangham / © WHO India)

WHO-supported monitoring teams identified a “zero” dose child who had never been vaccinated, and two “dropout” children who had missed their first and second dose of measles-rubella vaccination, respectively, in Mopa Tea village under Community Health Centre (CHC) Kanubari near the Assam-Arunachal border. Information about the children was shared with CHC Kanubari for necessary follow-up. (Photo: Lemkai Arangham / © WHO India)