WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
Upper Kheng: Farmers in one of country’s poorest villages in Zhemgang tilling their field The multidimensional poverty index takes into account other dimensions of education, health and living standards NSB: Many local economists and experts were stupefied when the previous government in one of its reports claimed the country’s poverty …
Program on pre-term birth is the first inter-institutional program on maternal-infant health and spontaneous pre-term birth sciences in India funded by the Department under the Grand Challenge Program. The total cost of the project is Rs. 48.85crore for a period of 5 years. It envisages a multidisciplinary research effort to …
Gujarat's much-touted Chiranjeevi Yojana, launched in 2006 to reduce maternal and infant mortality rates in BPL households, has not had any significant impact, says a new study by Duke University. The programme, which subsidizes the cost of delivery at designated private sector hospitals, has not led to increased probability of …
Nepal has made substantial progress in reducing under-five mortality and is on track to achieve Millennium Development Goal 4, but advances in neonatal health are less encouraging. The objectives of this study were to assess relative and absolute inequalities in neonatal mortality over time, and to review experience with major …
Meet to review physical, financial status of schemes Stressing on the need to focus on reducing the neonatal mortality in state, state health minister, Shabir Ahmad Khan, said that there was need to improve facility-based and home-based newborn care in state. He was addressing the chief medical officers and block …
Birth registration is a critical first step towards protecting children throughout their lives. Nearly 230 million children under the age of five in the world have not had their births registered. The report presents latest available data and estimates on birth registration in 161 countries. It highlights global and regional …
19.6 million people lack access to toilets in Nepal, with devastating consequences, in particular, for the well-being, health, education and empowerment of women and girls, reveals a report published on the World Toilet Day. Read more in this November 2013 edition of the Monthly Nepal State of the Environment Report …
The prevailing rate of infant and maternal mortality rate in Pakistan continues to be among the highest in the region. This was revealed during a seminar organized at a local hotel here to highlight the importance of the role Community Midwives (CMW) playing in bringing down the Infant and Maternal …
Bangladesh has had 40 years of exceptional progress in health, with infant mortality down, life expectancy up and good disease control, all despite being one of the world's poorest countries, researchers said on Thursday. Most often in the news for its poverty or natural or manmade disasters, such as a …
Nepal is tackling child deaths but thousands more lives could be saved each year if government efforts were focussed equally on the poorest, says a Save the Children report. Every year, around 26,000 children die before they reach age 5 in Nepal. In Save the Children's 'Lives on the Line' …
290 Infants Die In Koppal, Raichur Alarmed at 60% infant malnutrition deaths reported in some taluks of Koppal and Raichur districts against the national average of 42%, the Karnataka government constituted an expert committee to look into it. The committee, led by Dr BS Nanda Kumar, head, department of community …
Niger has made the greatest strides worldwide in reducing child mortality, a new study by Save the Children suggests. Other countries that reported progress in tackling child deaths include Liberia and Rwanda, the charity said. Child mortality rates in Niger fell by almost two thirds because of government policies to …
Setting a blistering pace, Tamil Nadu has halved its infant mortality rate (IMR) in the past decade while a bunch of other states — Maharashtra , Punjab and Karnataka — have shown significant decreases of around 40%. The overall IMR for the country has gone down by a third. This …
Setting a blistering pace, Tamil Nadu has halved its infant mortality rate (IMR) in the past decade while abunch of other states – Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka – have shown significant decreases of around 40%. The overall IMR for the country has gone down by a third. This emerges from the …
Nepal has moved up from having an ‘alarming’ hunger situation to ‘serious’, according to the scores of the Global Hunger Index 2013 report released this week. The report, published by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), scores countries based on three equally weighted indicators-- the proportion of people who are …
Country’s Hunger Index Has Dropped Three Points, But Stays In ‘Alarming’ Category: Global Hunger Report In a striking irony, the number of hungry people in the world was estimated at 842 million in 2011-13 in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) report released on Monday even as world cereal production was …
The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report presents a multidimensional measure of national, regional, and global hunger. It shows that the world has made some progress in reducing hunger since 1990, but still has far to go. World hunger remains “serious,” and 19 countries suffer from levels of hunger that …
The state has shown a decline in the infant mortality in rural are a sover the past three years, but it has remained the same in the urban areas. The number of infants dying before completing one year has considerably reducedin the rural areas, thus, bringing down the overall infant …
Encourage Tribals In Attappadi To Grow & Eat Vegetables In a bid to check malnutrition-related infant deaths in Attapadi, Hyderabad based National Institute of Nutrition, has recommended a slew of measures in a report submitted to the state government. They include referral fund for anganwadis to transfer emergency cases or …
This pamphlet titled `Towards achieving Millennium Development Goals India 2013’ has been brought out as a sequel to this Ministry’s `Millennium Development Goals India country report 2011’. It exhibits the latest status of India’s achievements with reference to the goals and targets set at the United Nation’s Millennium Summit held …
