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 …
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. …
Only 5 Years Left To Meet The Target Of Millennium Development Goals At the beginning of this millennium in year 2000, 189 countries and 23 international health agencies had pledged to reduce child under-5 mortality by two-thirds and maternal mortality by three-fourths by 2015. These were called the Millennium Development …
Having received support from various states, the proposed Bachelor of Rural Health Care is all set to roll out soon. Speaking exclusively to The Indian Express, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Azad said he will soon have a meeting with the officials concerned and launch the course.
Up-to-date information on the causes of child deaths is crucial to guide global efforts to improve child survival. The authors report new estimates for 2008 of the major causes of death in children younger than 5 years.
Pune A workshop on Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) was recently held at the regional centre of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Aundh. Conducted jointly with the UNICEF, the workshop had several modules that trained the participants on how to reduce infant mortality. Manuals with hands-on …
Ahmedabad: A seven-day-old boy, who is yet to be named, is hooked to the ventilator, fighting for life. He has suffered serious damage to his kidneys and is on dialysis. The infant has not suffered any infection or congenital damage, he is a victim of the recent heat wave that …
Shoumojit Banerjee PATNA: In a move to bolster Bihar's public health standards, the State government on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who visited Bihar on Wednesday, signed the agreement in the presence of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar …
Last week, the central government celebrated five successful years of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and its outreach programmes. But an international report from the voluntary group Save the Children, to be released on May 3, comes as a dampener. The figures show India topping the global list for …
