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 …
There could not have been a better gift for 40,000 girls studying in 454 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBV) in Uttar Pradesh. A Swedish company, Ikea
New Delhi: Planning Commission has asked the ministry for women and child development (WCD) to consider a paradigm policy shift and focus on children between 0-2 years of age as against the current practice of addressing the nutritional concerns of children from 6 months to 5 years through ICDS programme. …
KOCHI: Baby care in Kochi hospitals, be it in the private sector or the government sector, will not be the same anymore. The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), in association with the Indian Paediatrics Association (IAP) and the United Nations International Children
A Unicef report has shown high levels fluoride in groundwater sources in Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri A new report has confirmed the unacceptably high fluoride content in groundwater sources in Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts. The Hogenakkal drinking water scheme was conceived over 40 years ago to specifically address this problem in …
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) and Unicef have suspended the use and purchase of Shan5 vaccine from Sanofi Aventis-owned Shantha Biotechnics, pending a quality investigation that threatens a three-year contract worth $350 million. The investigation follows complaints from Colombia, Nepal and Comoros
UNICEF India Country Office representative Karin Hulshof on Wednesday assured full support to the Government to accelerate the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) while addressing an assembly of Deputy Commissioners, Zila Parishad representatives, Government engineers and other officials here. To ensure speedy progress in provision of rural sanitation and safe drinking …
The changing landscape of Ghaziabad in the National Capital Region, an apparent testament to the Indian economic boom with its shimmering malls and high-rise apartment blocks, hides another grim reality. With India reporting the highest number of polio cases (672 cases) in 2009 and Uttar Pradesh accounting for 544 of …
A two-day training programme was organised in collaboration with NRHM and UNICEF on January 11 and 12 at Swahid Bhavan, Lakhimpur for the volunteers of Nawa Bihan Samaj (NBS) for monitoring the trainingprogramme on Village Health and Sanitation Committee (VHSC) in the village level formed by National Rural Health Mission …
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is supporting the State government and city-based Disaster Management Institute (DMI) in implementing a unique community-based Disaster Risk Reduction Project in ten districts of the state. The Project, which got underway in November 2008 and presently covers 100 villages across Guna, Mandsaur, Damoh, Dhar, …
The Government and UNICEF officially commissioned a new water supply scheme in the Ampara district. The Thirukkovil water treatment plant will provide safe drinking water to 38,000 people in the Thirukkovil area. In doing so the Rs. 1.66 billion project, funded by UNICEF, will play a critical role in safeguarding …
THRISSUR: A two-day state-level workshop on the 7th Millennium Development Goal (MDG-7) - water quality and sanitation service delivery - will begin here on December 7. Talking to reporters here on Friday, District Collector V K Baby said the main objective of the workshop organised jointly by the UNICEF, the …
C Shivakumar | ENS India has about 48 per cent of undernourished children below five years, the largest in the world, according to a Unicef survey. The survey says India has an estimated 61 million stunted children, accounting for every three out of 10 stunted children in the developing world. …
Around 5,000 children under the age of five die in India every day, according to a latest Unicef report. With malnutrition rates continuing to be high, 96 per cent of children who die belong to the scheduled tribes, 88 per cent to scheduled castes and 59 to general population. "It …
Despite an improvement in child mortality figures, 5,000 children under the age of five die in India everyday due to preventable causes, according to the latest Unicef report
There has been no reduction in neonatal mortality rate figures in the country since 2003. From the 2002 figures, when 37.1 babies in a thousand died within the first 28 days of their life, the figure has remained static at 36 from 2003 to 2007. These are also the last …
Despite efforts by the government to arrest the alarming maternal mortality rate (MMR) in India, progress has been very slow in the past few years. Outlook has now learnt the government is considering taking a leaf out of Bangladesh
Diarrhoea is a major killer in India claiming the lives of about 1,000 children below five years of age everyday. Worldwide diarrhoeal diseases and acute respiratory infections are responsible for the deaths of more than 3.5 million children below five years of age each year. The second annual Global Handwashing …
Documentary and monograph to be brought out soon. Thrissur: The UNICEF plans to bring out a documentary and monograph on urban community-managed water governance schemes in Thrissur. Arun Dobhal, Water and Environmental Sanitation Officer with UNICEF, announced this at a three-day workshop on
