WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
49 babies die during clinical trials the Union health ministry has ordered an internal probe into the deaths of 49 infants who died during clinical drug trials conducted at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (aiims) over the past two and a half years. Responding to an rti query …
A survey in Maharashtra villages links malnutrition to lack of sustainable livelihood Over 40 children below five years of age died of malnutrition and related complications in Nandurbar
Aarti Dhar Five-year plan to also ensure safe water and sanitation, besides child protection Setting new goals: Minister of State for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury with Representative of UNICEF Karin Hulshof during the launch of the GoI-UNICEF programme of co-operation 2008-2012 in New Delhi on Thursday. NEW DELHI: …
The government of India and the Unicef today launched a five-year (2008-2012) action plan to help India combat the challenges of excessive malnutrition, high infant and maternal mortality rates, lack of quality education, safe water and sanitation. With seven years to go for the realisation of millennium development goals (MDGs), …
The four-month-old baby was crying at the top of his voice while the mother was cursing her fate sitting beside the baby for her failure to buy tinned milk being a wife of a rickshawpuller at Kamrangeer Char area of the city. Failing to provide tinned milk, she was giving …
This article utilises the National Family Health Survey-3 data and presents an empirical assessment of income-related health inequality in India. It undertakes a state-level analysis of inequities in child health by employing the widely accepted measures of concentration curves and concentration indices. It finds that the poorer sections of the …
This report describes important methodological issues involved in generating internationally comparable estimates of poverty. The special chapter, titled Comparing Poverty Across Countries: The Role of Purchasing Power Parities, also provides comparable rates of poverty using price data specific to the Asia and Pacific region, and, critically, to the poor. A …
Several hundred head of camel, sheep and cattle shoved and bustled in the blistering afternoon heat to get closer to the well. Many of them were crying and braying from thirst. Nearby, also waiting their turn, half a dozen Touareg nomads sat on donkeys carrying empty yellow water containers. Some …
Some 330 babies of less than one month of age die in the country everyday while eight million or 48 per cent of the children below five years are underweight. This is the state of child survival in Bangladesh as revealed in a global report launched by UNICEF, which still …
In the last few months there have been more than a few instances of sparring between the different state governments and the central government. So, if the Jaipur blasts became a bone of political contention about crucial intelligence reports, West Bengal becomes an election battleground where the allies at the …
The high maternal and infant mortality rate prevalent in Assam is a matter of grave concern. Notwithstanding some positive interventions made at government level, both the indices
The proportion of children in the country's population has fallen to an all-time low of 13.5 per cent. That's a demographic catastrophe that is without precedent in the developed world, writes BLAINE HARDEN Japan celebrated a national holiday, last Monday, in honour of its children. But Children's Day might just …
THE efforts of a Geneva-based organisation called Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) to set up an infant and young child nutrition (IYCN) alliance in India have raised the hackles of groups involved in the promotion of breastfeeding and child and infant survival. At a time when the question whether …
According to the latest global report card, India ranks 27th along with Ghana and Eritrea when it comes to providing basic healthcare to its children, which includes life-saving interventions like prenatal care, skilled childbirth, immunization and treatment for diarrhoea and pneumonia. Over 53% children in India under five years
Alarmed over the spurt in child mortality cases in Mizoram over the past one year, the State Government has initiated steps to provide better healthcare facilities to the people in remote areas of the State. At least 608 children died during 2007-08 as compared to 258 during the previous year …
Let's hear it for Tanzania. Despite being one of the world's poorest nations, it has become a role model in how to reach global targets for reducing death rates of children and mothers - putting most of its poor African neighbours to shame. So says the World Health Organization.
