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 …
Child mortality rate in Bangladesh fell by an average 5.3 percent annually from 1993 to 2007 by providing excess care to the health of poor mothers. During the period the country also achieved success in reducing gap between boys and girls prospects of survival, a report of the Save the …
Child mortality rate in Bangladesh fell by an average of 5.3 percent annually from 1993 to 2007 and the gap between boys' and girls' prospects of survival closed, reveals Save the Children's report titled "A Fair Chance at Life". The report says Bangladesh has defied the odds and is now …
A survey conducted by the UNICEF has shown significant rise in major indicators of the maternal and child healthcare, including immunisation in India. The Coverage Evaluation Survey 2009 (CES-2009), a nationwide survey, covering all the States and Union Territories was conducted during November 2009 to January 2010, says institutional delivery …
Life expectancy in India has increased by nearly 50 per cent since 1960, says India Health Report 2010 by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Indicus Analytics.
The Pakistan Millennium Development Goals Report 2010, produced by the Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan analyses the present status and challenges towards achieving the MDGs in Pakistan. It is a comprehensive document which will generate discussions in both public and private sector organization focused on economic and social development.
The objective of the Report to the People on Health is to examine and address critical macro issues including identifying barriers and providing options and strategies for the future. This report is more than a document as it reflects the directions of the government as developed in a spirit of …
Teena Thacker The team from the Union Health Ministry probing the death of four infants during a routine immunisation drive in Mohanlalganj near Lucknow on Saturday has sent samples of the measles vaccine from the stock to the Central Drug Laboratory Kolkata for further investigations.
New Delhi: Child mortality rates in India are the highest in tribal areas with figures exceeding the national average, a new report has said. The report
This paper is the rst attempt to rigorously evaluate the short term e ects of the `Janani Suraksha Yojna' (Safe Motherhood Scheme), a nationwide conditional cash transfer program in India, launched in April 2005. Under the scheme, a woman delivering her child in a medical facility is provided monetary rewards. …
Significant programmatic experience and research evidence regarding HIV and infant feeding have accumulated since WHO's recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV were last revised in 2006. In particular, evidence has been reported that antiretroviral (ARV) interventions to either the HIV-infected mother or HIV-exposed infant can significantly reduce …
The Kolar Gold Fields (KGF) have long been declared a ghost town. Ever since the public sector Bharat Gold Mines Ltd (BGML) shut down operations in 2001, the whole area has worn a deserted look. That haunted aspect is getting more pronounced now with the mysterious and mass death of …
In a field, a sinewy man bends at the waist, slicing stalks of wheat with a small machete. A mother gently places her infant son, slung in a piece of blue fabric, onto a vegetable scale housed in a makeshift clinic. Two girls walk to school. These images are interspersed …
Aizawl, July 12: If the survey by Economics & Statistics Department of Mizoram is to be based, the rate of infant mortality is on the increase in Mizoram. The survey stated that a baby dies before attaining one year across the State, and over the last decades in Mizoram the …
Gandhinagar: Alarmed by the continued lag in human development index (HDI), especially due to gaps in health services, Gujarat government has decided to start online monitoring of rural families in order to find out existing lacunae in controlling high levels of infant mortality rate (IMR) and maternal mortality rate (MMR). …
A cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan here today decided to establish Atal Bal Aroyga Evam Poshan Mission with the objective of tackling the problems of malnutrition among children. Objectives of the mission include reducing infant mortality rate from 94.2 to 60 per thousand by the …
In this paper OPHI presents details of new Multidimensional Poverty Index developed for 104 developing countries. This will be featured in the forthcoming UNDP HDR 2010 & replaces the Human Poverty Index used in these reports since 1997.This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. …
