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 …
Seminar for health care providers today The UNICEF in association with the Amala Institute of Medical Science will implement a model community action programme at Adattu panchayat in the district to improve child health. Millions of children die from preventable causes before reaching their fifth birthday, many of them during …
Latest Planning Report Says State’s Progress Is Off-Track Jaipur: The latest report for Rajasthan on the millennium development goals (MDG) released by the state planning board revealed that the state is likely to miss its targeted goals set for 2015. The state has performed poorly in many of the indicators …
Bhopal : Maryada Abhiyan has been launched in Madhya Pradesh for freeing villages from the curse of open area defecation. Through the campaign, awareness is being created among villagers about environmental improvement, sanitation and safeguarding women’s modesty. For this purpose, a three-day workshop was organised by Panchayats and Rural Development …
Health practitioners, policy-makers and activists here on Monday expressed concern over high prevalence of anaemia among adolescents and women in Rajasthan and called for evolving multi-sectoral strategies through convergence with various agencies for effective control of the syndrome caused by iron deficiency and malnutrition. Addressing a workshop on “Anaemia: A …
Experts of UNICEF visited village Ratanpur in Sehore district today to take stock development works being carried out in the rural areas under Total Sanitation Campaign and efforts for creating awareness towards sanitation among villagers. UNICEF sanitation expert Shri Gregor and his team were accompanied by senior officers of Madhya …
Experts of UNICEF visited village Ratanpur in Sehore district on Friday to take stock development works being carried out in the rural areas under the Total Sanitation Campaign and efforts for creating awareness on sanitation among villagers. UNICEF sanitation expert Gregor and his team were accompanied by senior officers of …
Pneumonia and diarrhea are the two leading causes of infant mortality, together accounting for nearly one-third of all deaths among children under 5 around the world. This amounts to more than 2 million lives lost each year. Both diseases are easily preventable and curable, a new United Nations Children's Fund …
Sixty per cent of people living in India do not have access to toilets, and hence are forced to defecate in the open. In actual numbers, sixty per cent translates to 626 million. This makes India the number one country in the world where open defecation is practised. Indonesia with …
NEW YORK, 8 JUNE: Scaling up simple interventions to control diarrhoea and pneumonia can save more than two million children in poor and developing countries, including India where over six lakh kids under five years die every year due to the two preventable diseases, a Unicef report said today. According …
Actor Aamir Khan, who has been earning accolades for highlighting social issues through his television programme Satyamev Jayate , will soon be seen spreading awareness about the problem of malnutrition as part of a major publicity campaign by the government. “The Women and Child Development [WCD] Ministry has planned a …
To mark this year's World Environment Day, the Tiruchi wing of the Isha Foundation has decided to nurture at their own nursery four types of tree saplings: trees that give shade, bear fruits and flowers, and those that provide timber. Instituted under the banner Project Green Hands, the two acre …
JAIPUR: The medical, health and family welfare department managed to achieve only 85.09% of target set for full immunization of infants against various diseases in the financial year 2011-12. The latest figures released by the health department shows that nine districts have failed to touch even 80% of the set …
The current drug discovery paradigm in the West is constrained in what it can do, primarily due to the funding model. Here we envisage a hypothetical non-governmental, non-profit organization called the Centre for Affordable Medicine. By sourcing innovation from a network of academic and corporate partners, and working primarily in …
Tackling polio has entered "emergency mode" according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative after "explosive" outbreaks in countries previously free of the disease. It has launched a plan to boost vaccination in Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the only countries where the disease is still endemic. Experts fear the disease could …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as Odisha battles with high incidence of diarrhoea among children, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) is all set to launch an extensive programme on ‘Management and prevention of childhood diarrhoea’ to combat the menace in the State. The programme would be launched in five districts of Rayagada, Kalahandi, …
A coordinated plan of five ministries to accelerate the reduction of maternal and child under-nutrition in the country is taking pace, officials said. National Planning Commission has recently prepared a six-year plan to improve the nutrition of babies up to two years of age through the coordinated efforts of the …
Two ICDDR,B doctors, also experts in cholera management, returned home Wednesday after a two-week visit to the Horn of African countries —Somalia and Kenya — where they trained more than 50 health professionals, including doctors and nurses, in cholera case management. Heavy rainfall caused increased fears of a wide- scale …
A large population, especially children, in 27 of the 50 Madhya Pradesh districts are threatened by the fluorosis menace as people in these districts are being forced to drink water with excessive fluoride, much beyond the permissible limit. According to the latest information available from the state public health engineering …
The UN warns that a million children in Africa's Sahel region face malnutrition due to drought in region. In all 15 million people face food insecurity in eight nations across the Sahel, a region that is still recovering from drought and a food crisis of 2010. Un some countries the …
NEW DELHI, May 7 – UNICEF has reported arsenic contamination in ground water in 18 districts of Assam and fluoride contamination in five districts. Based on information from Chief Engineer (PHE) of the State Government, a UNICEF study has found arsenic and fluoride contamination, Minister of State for Water Resources, …
