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 …
Inclusiveness, especially in education, rang out as a cause close to the hearts of the jury at the awards. And their selection of Pratham USA as the winner in the category of International Contribution to India seemed to confirm this. Through the three-hour deliberations, issues of inclusiveness kept cropping up …
KARACHI – The World Health Organisation has announced that it is starting a large measles vaccination campaign targeting 2.9 million children in eight districts of Sindh as an emergency response to the outbreak in the province. Figures collected from various official sources and surveys provide evidence of the current outbreak …
A report presented by UNICEF officials revealed that over 24,000 children die of Pneumonia in the country every year that caused by bacterium called Streptococcus Pneumonia. This was disclosed by UNICEF officials Dr. Tariq Iqbal and Dr. Aurangzaib Kamal at a workshop held in connection with introduction of newly launched …
On the surface, it sounded like an outburst from a minister known to speak his mind. “Public health lies outside the medical fraternity,” said Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh inaugurating THE WEEK Health Summit held on December 7. He was referring to the lack of proper sanitation and …
India’s vaccine manufacturing sector is set for massive export boost with the country’s national regulatory authority, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), passing the WHO’s toughest efficacy and safety tests. An 18-member team of drug inspectors from the WHO, US-FDA, Sweden, China, Switzerland and Thailand reviewed the Central Drug …
12 units from India are eligible for supplying vaccines to international bodies In a major boost to the country’s private vaccine manufacturing pharmaceutical companies, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that India’s national regulatory authority — Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) — and its affiliated institutions meet the …
“If India wants to become a superpower, we have to ensure that there are no malnourished children in our country; and for that each Indian has to do his/her bit,” said Bollywood actor Aamir Khan speaking at the nation-wide launch of the Information, Education and Communication (IEC) campaign against malnutrition …
Globally 2.5 billion people have no clean toilets and 1.1 billion people defecate in the field of which 40 million are in Pakistan. Over half the women in Pakistan have no access to a safe toilet, threatening their health and exposing them to shame and fear, said Siddiq Khan country …
India tops in global pneumonia deaths of children under five years of age with 3.97 lakh reported in 2010, says a Unicef study. The third annual International Vaccine Access Centre’s (IVAC) Pneumonia Progress Report 2012 says that almost 1,088 children under five years of age die everyday in India, an …
India continues to top the global pneumonia mortality charts, witnessing four lakh deaths of children every year. This translates into 1,095 children dying every day on account of a vaccine-preventable disease, which is also treatable with antibiotics. Worldwide, 13 lakh children died of pneumonia in 2011, with 30 per cent …
According to this Pneumonia Progress Report 2012 released by IVAC and John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, more than 99 per cent of all pneumonia deaths occurred in developing countries and 3/4 of it in 15 countries, among which India tops the list. Recent estimates from the United Nations …
The state government, while claiming that infant mortality rate in the state has improved and malnutrition has declined drastically, announced a special drive for the eradication of the malnutrition in urban areas. The state government released the report of the study conducted by International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), supported …
Pakistan’s recent torrential floods, triggered by heavy monsoon rains in different parts of the country, killed at least 412 people and injured 1,172 others besides affecting over 8.2 million more. According to National Disastrous Management Authority (NDMA),the floods caused damage to an area of 7.987 million acres and swept away …
Nearly 50 per cent of Indian children are underweight and more than 70 per cent of women and children have serious nutritional deficiencies, including anaemia, according to a report by UNICEF. India is at the bottom of the world’s maiden nutrition barometer along with countries like Angola, Cameroon, Congo and …
Residents of slums, poorly developed residential colonies in urban areas face ordeals ranging from diseases to sexual harassment because of little or no access to functioning and clean toilets, reveals a new study on sanitation in urban areas. The study, ‘Squatting Rights’, has revealed that a large slum population has …
After being successfully declared the Open Defecation Free (ODF) zones, the ten village development committees across the country are on their way to become fully sanitised villages. The Department of Water Supply and Sewerage (DWSS) under the Ministry of Physical Planning and Works is scaling up its total sanitation campaign …
23% of girls stop their education after reaching puberty. But with NGOs selling low-cost sanitary napkins, attendance seems to be going up. Better days ahead? AMuruganandam remembers visiting a hilltop village in Himachal some years ago. “None of the girls there went to school, one reason being they didn’t have …
WHO and partners hope that they can fi nally rid the world of polio. But insurgency, Taliban-initiated boycotts, and a US$1 billion funding defi cit will not make it an easy task. Dara Mohammadi reports.
Earlier, many nursing mothers inIndia breastfed their babies for a longer period of time. But with changing times, women have begun weaning babies off breast milk much earlier. Data from the National Family Health Survey 3 report indicates that many mothers stop exclusive breastfeeding prematurely, with only 69% infants less …
