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 …
Pakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani has sought to blame an influx of Afghan refugees for persistence of polio in his country as Commonwealth leaders pledged to eradicate the crippling disease by announcing measures like a new $50-million funding. Mr Gilani made the remarks on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads …
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef) has appealed to international community for $50.3 million to cover the immediate needs of children and women hit by the recent flood in the country. Unicef official told APP on Wednesday that additional relief supplies for health, nutrition and water are urgently needed …
Professionals and activists at a global conference on sanitation and hygiene on Wednesday stressed the need for coordinated efforts from the government and non-government organizations to remove institutional as well as cultural barriers to make sure that all, including the marginalised and the physically-challenged people, have access to proper sanitation. …
A six-day global conference on sanitation and hygiene which began here on Monday called for all out efforts to ensure that everyone across the world has access to toilets and safe water to prevent deaths from diarrheal diseases. Professionals, activists and policy makers from different countries told the conference that …
A cholera epidemic sweeping through west and Central Africa, one of the biggest in the vast region's history, has infected more than 85,000 people, killing at least 2,466 so far this year, United Nations aid agencies said yesterday. The virulent diarrhea disease is spreading quickly along waterways between and within …
It will be implemented by Sulabh International in 150 houses A total sanitation project is to be implemented at a cost of Rs. 75 lakh at Milavittan in the district through the initiatives of Sterlite Copper here. According to a press release, bhoomi puja was performed to this effect on …
A water reservoir will be built at a cost of Rs 260 million with World Bank assistance at Valvettithurai, Engineer in charge of National Water Supply and Drainage Board, Northern Region, Thavendrakumar said. He said that a reservoir of 760 cubic metres is being constructed at Valvettiturai. People living in …
A team of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, an international health research institution in Dhaka, has provided its assistance to famine-hit Somalia people to fight cholera. On September 11, the ICDDR,B emergency cholera response team travelled from their base in Nairobi to Somalia’s beleaguered capital Mogadishu to …
At least 10 people in northwestern China have contracted a highly infectious strain of polio, in the first outbreak of the disease in the country for 12 years, a United Nations group said yesterday. Six children and four adults in the Xinjiang region have been diagnosed with the wild poliovirus …
The annual number of children who die before they reach age five is shrinking, falling to 7.6 million global deaths in 2010 from more than 12 million in 1990, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation said on September 14. Overall, 12,000 fewer children under age 5 die each day than …
The number of young children who die each day has plunged over the past two decades, new United Nations figures show, but the world is still lagging far behind in efforts to achieve its target for reducing child mortality. Child mortality rates are dropping in every region of the world, …
It is ironic that India, which is aiming to become a hub of medical tourism and boasts of world class medical facilties, cannot provide even basic midwifery services and primary health care to thousands of pregnant women. Not only is the country’s maternal mortality rate high, in some districts like …
The workshop for "Early Recovery Programme for Rural Sanitation in flood-affected districts of Pakistan, Phase III," was held here on Thursday to increase mutual understanding between the partners and government officials to improve sanitation coverage in 33 districts, reaching out to more than seven million people. Plan International, with the …
The under-five mortality rate dropped globally by more than one-third, from 88 deaths per 1,000 live births to 57, reported United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef) and World Health Organisation for the period 1990 to 2010. The latest worldwide estimates released yesterday showed the number of under-five children dying …
Up to 2.5 million children have been affected by severe monsoon floods in southern Pakistan – and with many still recovering from the worst floods in the country’s history just a year ago, UNICEF says more help must reach them fast before the situation worsens. In a statement release here …
The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, an international health research institution in Dhaka, will provide its help to famine-hit people to fight cholera in Somalia. A expert-team from ICDDR,B reached Kenya on September 1 to assist the international community in managing cholera outbreak in neighbouring Somalia. Initially based …
Aimed at helping the famine-hit people of Somalia fight cholera, a team of experts from International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) reached neighbouring Kenya on September 1. Initially based in northern Kenya, the team hopes to travel to Mogadishu later this week, said a press release from ICDDR,B, …
President Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Sadako Ogata and Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates recently announced a strategic partnership to ensure continued progress in the fight against polio. As a first step of the formal partnership, Ogata and Gates announced an innovative financing agreement to …
Britain said on August 17 that hundreds of thousands of children could starve to death in Somalia if the international community did not ramp up its response to the famine there, and pledged a further $48 million to aid children and livestock owners. The latest pledge brings Britain's total aid …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has removed three combination vaccines of Panacea Biotech from its pre-qualification list. It took the step after it found deficiencies in the quality management system followed in Panacea’s vaccine manufacturing facility in Punjab. Shipments of these vaccines – combinations of diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, Hepatitis B …
