World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Nearly 10 million more people infected with the AIDS virus now meet medical standards for receiving HIV drugs, according to revised U.N. guidelines released on Sunday, which experts say could avert 6.5 million deaths or new infections by 2025. But achieving this goal will be a challenge, as it will add some $2 billion a year to the bill to fight the 32-year AIDS epidemic, they acknowledged.
This MDGs report 2013 looks at significant areas like hunger, maternal health, sanitation and environmental protection and shows that the achievement of the MDGs has been uneven among and within countries.
In 2008, just three types of cancer accounted for 10% of global cancer-related deaths. That year, about 460,000 women died from breast cancer (the most frequently diagnosed cancer among women and the fifth
<p>Since Ganga river bank in Varanasi is the major tourist attraction, particularly for the heavy ornamentation of ghats and temples on the western bank of the river flowing in the reverse direction i.e.,
The state social welfare department is going to start a nutrition mission to bring down the rate of women and children suffering from malnutrition in the state, which is around 39 per cent at present,
ISLAMABAD: The European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) on Monday provided 3 million euros ($3.7 million) to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to combat malnutrition among women
Ultrasonography is not done only for sex selection Contrary to the general belief that a majority of pregnant women undergo ultrasonography (USG) only for sex selection, a study shows that 80 per cent of them have given live birth and the remaining had either undergone a pregnancy loss or both live births and abortion.
Raises questions with regard to official claims of crackdown on prenatal sex determination Primary abstract of 2011 census, released on Monday, has indicated an alarming level of female foeticide in Jammu and Kashmir as a drastic decrease of 79 females per thousand of children has been noticed in the basic age group of 0 to 6 years. In each unit of 2,000 children, there were 941 females and 1059 males in 2001.
Acceleration of progress in nutrition will require effective, large-scale nutrition-sensitive programmes that address key underlying determinants of nutrition and enhance the coverage and effectiveness
Maternal and child malnutrition in low-income and middle-income countries encompasses both undernutrition and a growing problem with overweight and obesity. Low body-mass index, indicative of maternal