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 United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has sought an additional $49.7 million to meet the needs of children and women displaced by floods in Sindh and Balochistan. In a report published on Saturday, Unicef emphasised that these resources were necessary in order to transition into early recovery. Since the launch …
The conference organised by the northern headquarters of Confederation of Indian Industry at Chandigarh today on corporate social responsibility and corporate social opportunity shared successful case studies of NGOs and corporates who have integrated these two major areas into their business plans. This was the second edition of CSR-CSO Bridge …
Cholera cases have soared in the Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks, the UN said on Friday, bringing the number of people infected in the year-long outbreak to 22,000 with 584 deaths. Aid agencies have been trying to halt the spread of the water-borne disease that has ravaged eight …
Karachi—Ambassador for Polio Eradication, Ms Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, has called for stepped up efforts to completely eradicate the crippling disease of Polio from the country and to once again achieve the status of Polio free country as was achieved during the government of Shaheed Mohtarma Benzir Bhutto in mid 90s. …
Calling for urgent measures to provide sanitation facility across the country, Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has pointed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that in addition to malnutrition another distressing national shame which India can't live with is open defecation. Mr. Ramesh, who also controls the Department of …
A remarkable improvement has been witnessed in the condition of malnourished children in Madhya Pradesh. A national survey conducted by an independent agency has found that the number of malnourished children in the State has come down by 50 per cent and those of underweight children by 25 per cent. …
Jaipur: Malnutrition among children in Rajasthan has taken ominous proportions. The Hungama (Hunger and Malnutrition) survey carried out recently by Naandi Foundation indicates that the situation in many districts has worsened when compared to what it was about a decade back. The Hungama Survey, released on Tuesday by Prime Minister …
The United Nations and leading world organizations celebrated India’s first polio free year and termed it as a major milestone in their fight against this dreaded disease. The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan, termed it as the “greatest public health achievement” of India, the Bill Gates, of Bill …
The top US health official administered polio vaccination drops to children in New Delhi on Friday as India marked one year since its last case of the crippling disease. The milestone is a major victory in the global effort to eradicate polio. If no previously undisclosed cases are uncovered in …
The UNICEF executive director, Anthony Lake, on Wednesday said that government needed to work more for the children at risk to reduce deprivation among them in low-performing rural areas and urban slums. Lake, during his three-day visit to Bangladesh, visited a drop-in centre supported by UNICEF for the protection of …
A report on hunger and malnutrition in 112 districts across nine states of the country has revealed that 42.3 per cent children under the age of five years are underweight, 58.8 per cent are stunted and 11.4 per cent are “wasted”. Releasing the report prepared by Hyderabad-based Naandi Foundation here …
For the first time in about five years, India will have data on district-level malnutrition. The data has been collated by Hyderabad-based Naandi Foundation in a report titled HUNGaMA (hunger and malnutrition) which will be released by Prime Minister manmohan Singh Tuesday. The district-level health data was collated for nine …
Inclusive growth is possible only with enhanced participation of the poor and socially-disadvantaged in education The approach paper for the 12th Five-Year Plan with focus on faster, sustained and inclusive growth is candid and forward-looking. On poverty reduction, the document notes, without comment, the annual trend decline of 0.8% accelerating …
HIV has claimed more than 25 million lives over the past three decades while about 7 million HIV infected people all over the world are still waiting for access to the treatment of the disease. According to the latest report by the WHO, UNICEF and UNAIDS, increased access to HIV …
The prevalence is 18 per cent in South India, says UNAIDS report India houses half of Asia's HIV patients and is way ahead of China in disease burden. It also finds a place in the list of 22 countries prioritised for preventing mother to child transmission infection, according to the …
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday announced new grants as part of its ongoing support to Pakistan's polio eradication programme and to assist the Sindh government's response to this year's floods. The grants will fund initiatives aiming to provide assistance to polio survivors as well as address the …
Thirty years after the first reported case of human infection with the HIV virus, the profile of HIV/AIDS is undergoing a transformation from a life-threatening emergency to a manageable chronic disease. New strategies and initiatives have ensured that fewer people are getting infected with the virus, and more infected people …
“We aim to immunise all children in the age group of nine months to 10 years irrespective of their immunisation status. This is part of the Central Government's massive anti-measles catch-up vaccination drive that will try and cover more than 13 crore children in 14 vulnerable States,” said Union Health …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government is keen on including iodised salt in the public distribution system (PDS) in order to ensure access by the lowest rung of the society and tackle the high prevalence of iodine deficiency disorders (IDDs) in the population, said Health Secretary Anu Garg . The proposed project …
Absence of preventive measures and affordable and accessible health care leads to nearly 500 encephalitis deaths in Uttar Pradesh. IT is a strange paradox. In a country that aspires to be a superpower and boasts of rapid economic growth, 488 children died in a State, Uttar Pradesh, from encephalitis alone …
