The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping to 4.9 million in 2022, according to this latest estimates released by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
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Social sciences are vastly neglected in the country. So it's refreshing when a school organizes a history exhibition. The Thanjammal Memorial Elementary School in Tiruchi organized one such
The bruising treatment of youngsters in many parts of the world, and the use of child soldiers in war-torn parts of Africa emerged as a recurring theme at the 10-day Berlin International Film
A former employee of Modern Foods, a public sector unit later taken over by Hindustan Lever Limited that used to provide bread under ICDS in Uttar Pradesh until 2003, tells <i>Down To Earth</i> the inside story of how small players exploit the contract system on the condition of anonymity.<br>
In 2006, Delhi decided to experiment with the supplementary nutrition programme: it handed over the scheme to NGOs. Swami Sivananda Memorial Institute (SSMI) was given the charge of the Jahangirpuri resettlement colony in western Delhi. It had to cater to about 14,000 children and women. The NGO formed a self-help group of women from the community it served. Some of the employees had their children getting food under the scheme. The kitchen was located within the community to ensure accountability. Lady Irwin College decided the menu.
Top scientists commissioned by Hong Kong's health authorities to probe a recent influenza outbreak here have not found an especially virulent form of virus from children who died after coming down wit
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The Hong Kong government on Thursday closed all elementary schools and preschools in the territory a week early for Easter holidays after three children died amid an influenza outbreak, but insisted t
Taking notice of resistance by some parents to immunisation of their children against polio, District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has constituted a three-member committee to ensure that polio drops are administered to all children up to five years of age throughout the district during a three-day anti-polio campaign beginning on Tuesday. The committee comprises the DCO, the EDO health (focal person) and the SP City. The decision was taken at a meeting held at the district nazim secretariat here to finalise arrangements for the campaign. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Jamil said that due to the attitude of some parents who were resisting the administration of anti-polio drops, 297,000 children in the district could not be placed at risk. He said that at the request of the district government, prayer leaders, public representatives and social workers had tried to persuade such parents to get their children immunised but some of them were still adamant. The district nazim said that such a state of affairs could not be tolerated. He directed the EDO Health to prepare a list of the resisting parents and said that come what may, their children would be administered anti-polio drops. He directed the officers of the health department to collect information about such parents. He directed the employees of all the departments of the district government not only to ensure that their own children were administered anti-polio drops but the children of their neighbours were also immunised. He directed the EDO health to include maximum number of female workers in the anti-polio teams to ensure success of the campaign. He appealed to social activists, civil servants and public representatives to make sure that each and every locality was visited by health workers during the drive. He said that even after the latest round of the campaign, the drive would continue in all the hospitals and anti-polio centres, specially at main entrance of the district, would be activated.
