UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation will launch a Nationwide Real Time Monitoring of use of toilets from January 2015. The Monitoring System will be unveiled to give a big push to Swachh Bharat Mission, which aims at attaining a 100% Open Defecation Free India by 2019. People across …
The Centre will soon launch an action plan against diarrhoea and pneumonia in four States, including Rajasthan. The aim is to end preventable child deaths from these two by 2025. As high as 36 per cent of all child deaths, below the age of 5, in India are caused by …
In India, perhaps Ground Zero in the sanitation and faecal contamination battle, the government has set Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday in 2019 as its target for achieving “total sanitation,” including access to toilets for all 1.2 billion residents. In a world in which 14 percent of the population in the …
AS nations marked 2014 World Toilet Day yesterday, the United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that no fewer than 119 million Nigerians still use unsafe toilet facilities in homes and public places, while about 50 million of them actually defecate in public places. The agency noted that slow …
A TOTAL of 46,687 children were successfully treated of acute malnutrition while 910 died in the nine local government areas of Sokoto State where the Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programme has been in operation since 2010. The local government areas included Binji, Gudu, Gada, Goronyo, Illela, Tangaza, Wamakko, …
In India, perhaps Ground Zero in the sanitation and faecal contamination battle, the government has set Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday in 2019 as its target for achieving “total sanitation,” including access to toilets for all 1.2 billion residents. In a world in which 14 percent of the population in the …
Islamabad - For the eradication of polio, the government of Japan, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) signed agreements on Monday to make sure that children are vaccinated in Pakistan. Amir Sheikh, joint secretary ministry of national health services, regulations and coordination (MoNHSRC), witnessed the …
With the aim to achieve the minimum maternal mortality rate (MMR) and infant mortality rate (IMR) in Uttar Pradesh by checking malnutrition among mothers and children, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav launched the much awaited State Nutrition Mission here on Saturday. Addressing the gathering soon after launching the SNM, Yadav said …
Kaduna — Over 150,000 children die of diarrhoea, largely caused by unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene practices, the (UNICEF) Representative in Nigeria, Jean Gough, has said. Gough said in a statement to mark the Global Hand Washing Day yesterday that hand washing with soap is one of the cheapest, simplest …
Ahead of the celebrations of Global Handwashing Day on Wednesday, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) here has raised the concern that one out of five schools nationwide lack toilet facilities. Global Handwashing Day is a campaign to motivate and mobilise millions around the world to wash their hands with …
Proportion of children underweight fell from 45.1 % in 2005-06 to 30.1 % in 2013-14 The proportion of underweight children in India might have declined from 45.1 per cent in 2005-06 to a historic low of 30.7 per cent last year, new provisional data from a survey conducted by the …
KARACHI: New data released by the United Nations show that under-five mortality rates have dropped by 49 per cent between 1990 and 2013. The average annual reduction has accelerated – in some countries it has even tripled – but overall progress is still short of meeting the global target of …
M. Badruddoza, additional secretary of Health Ministry inaugurated the launching ceremony of the toolkit at the Sasakawa auditorium of the ICDDR’B in the capital Ministry of Health yesterday introduced a uniform national standard guideline, Direct Nutrition Intervention (DNI), for tackling the malnutrition problem of the country in a coordinated manner. …
LAHORE: The government of Punjab is spending around Rs 4,000 on every child for vaccination against polio, measles and other diseases. Punjab Health Services Director Dr Munir Ahmed said this on Sunday. He said that parents should cooperate with vaccinators who had been serving the people by putting their lives …
After the Kanyashree project’s international acclaim, it was the turn of the state government’s rural development and rural water supply system that drew the World Bank and UNICEF’s attention. Inviting the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government to attend a seven-day seminar on rural development and rural water supply in Stockholm …
Maneka Sets 2-Yr Deadline For Implementation Hundred districts with the worst child sex ratio across the country will be the cradle for the ambitious `Beti bachao, beti padhao' scheme that envisages a mix of cash transfers with stringent action against erring medical practitioners and monitoring of health clinics. “We are …
In its bid to tackle sanitation and waste management issues in the country, the government on Wednesday decided to make India free from open defecation on a priority basis. At a high-level meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), which had senior officials from about 10 ministries, the government outlined …
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nation International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have reported significant progress in their quest for universal health coverage with more than 111 million infants receiving vaccines in 2013 to protect them from deadly diseases. According to new estimates released yesterday by the UN agencies, …
Cheer any Indian leader who takes on the taboo of public hygiene, one of the country’s great problems. Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, says building toilets is a priority over temples. His finance minister, Arun Jaitley, used this month’s budget to set a goal of ending defecating in the open …
He wore thick black eyeliner to ward off the evil eye, but one-yearold Vivek had nonetheless fallen victim to malnutrition. His parents seemed to be doing all the right things. His family had six goats, access to fresh buffalo milk and a hut filled with hundreds of pounds of wheat …
