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 …
-67 per cent adolescent girls in Jharkhand suffer against a national average of 56 per cent A former anaemia patient who recovered after the intake of iron folic acid (IFA) tablets, fruits and vegetables, she is now going door to door, counselling people on how to combat anaemia, as a …
It was a cold January morning. As the mist cleared, groups of women could be seen wending their way to the aanganwadi (kindergarten) in Khitwans village in Lalitpur district’s Birdha block. The women were either pregnant or lactating mothers. Pramilla Jha, a counsellor for infant feeding, was waiting for them. …
Jan 23, Colombo: The year 2011 national immunization programme of Sri Lanka is to be launched tomorrow ceremoniously under the patronage of the Minister of Health Maithripala Sirisena and the Minister of Education Bandula Gunawardhana at Ananda Samarakoon Grounds in Nugegoda. The programme is sponsored by World Health Organization (WHO) …
In a bid to address PM Manmohan Singh's concern on the "unacceptably high" levels of malnutrition in the country, a meeting has been called on Tuesday to examine the possibility of promoting double fortification of salt with iron. The doubly fortified salt has already been tried and tested both within …
The Health Ministry will set up the National Nutrition Council on January 14, a Health Ministry spokesman said. According to the spokesman the Council to be set up by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on a proposal made by Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena. Many other line ministries and institutions such as the …
RISE in water tariffs, comprehensive mapping of aquifers, setting up of aquifer management agencies to handle ground water resources besides rejection of public-private partnership models were some of the steps suggested by experts to provide universal access to water and resolve the crisis in the country. Addressing the International Conference …
The future of nearly 12 lakhs out of school children is set to be transformed in Rajasthan. The success story of child tracking system by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) under the State Department of Education, is drawing thousands of children from cattle grazing fields, out of homes and labour sites …
Ranchi, Dec. 7: The state health department will be organising a pulse polio day in Pakur district on December 19 and has planned a series of awareness programmes in collaboration with Unicef to make it a success. Significantly, the pulse polio programme failed to achieve its zero-polio target only in …
After evidence that India is lagging behind on the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing Infant Mortality Rate by 2015, it now turns out that it is faltering on the child survival MDG as well. The first-ever report tracking global progress against pneumonia, the leading killer of children under five …
Only 31 per cent of rural Indian households and schools are equipped with toilets, a WHO/Unicef survey has revealed. This is much lower than the government-compiled figure of 67 per cent. The percentage of households and schools having toilets is the sanitation level, and the WHO/Unicef report says these levels …
Despite a national programme to control anaemia since the seventies, there has been negligible progress Indicus Analytics / October 7, 2010, 0:35 IST Anaemia is one of India
The more educated the mother, the more likely she is to vaccinate her child against a range of diseases, a government survey shows Indicus Analytics / September 23, 2010, 0:02 IST Universal child immunisation is one of the targets under the Millennium Development Goal programme to reduce child mortality; India …
Initiation of breast feeding in the first hour of delivery is not happening. KOCHI: Faulty feeding habits and low levels of exclusive breast feeding for children up to six months have resulted in increasing malnutrition in children below three years. Speaking to press persons during the first State conference of …
