Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The progress made by Nigeria and other countries in reducing extreme poverty and disease in recent decades is in jeopardy, according to an inaugural annual report by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The report titled: “Goalkeepers: The Stories Behind the Data,” being launched highlighted past progress against some of …
LUCKNOW: Death of children in Uttar Pradesh is much bigger an issue than reflected by the recent tragic incidents of Gorakhpur and Farrukhabad. An assessment of National Family health Survey (NHFS) data on infant mortality suggests 981 infants die in UP every day, before their first birthday. The total number …
More efforts are needed, particularly by the government to curb the spate of malnutrition in Ghana and other parts of Africa, an international report has recommended. The report launched on Monday by the Malabo Montpellier Panel notes that across Africa, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger dropped from …
Maternal folic acid (FA) protects against developmental toxicity from certain environmental chemicals. The researchers examined combined exposures to maternal FA and pesticides in relation to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Original Source
Action plan for Phase 2 being formulated for 17,000 kids The second phase of the Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programme will be implemented in Rajasthan on micro-planning basis at the district level. Sixty-two blocks of 13 districts which were covered in the first phase will not be included. …
With child labour soaring in Lebanon following the outbreak of war in Syria, the United Nations published on Wednesday the first guide in Arabic to help farmers and officials seeking to protect them from risks like sexual abuse and injury. Children as young as five, largely Syrian refugees and poor …
The children of Ambohijafy, a rural village among the green valleys and sloping hills of Madagascar’s fertile central highlands, are some of the poorest in the world, but they dream of rising above their circumstances. Outside the huddle of thatched mud huts, Rakotonirina, a solemn 10-year-old whose father is a …
The document summarizes an extensive body of research conducted to assess the extent and quality of water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services geographically and over the income distribution using a variety of techniques and data sources; the interaction between WASH outcomes and health, especially nutrition; and the institutional barriers …
Egeland stressed that of this number, 450,000 were in Nigeria, 247,500 in Niger, 63,000 in Cameroon and 22,000 in Chad.He explained that 57 per cent of the funds needed to provide basic humanitarian needs were still lacking, six months after world leaders met to support the crisis in the Lake …
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of children suffering from life-threatening malnutrition across the Lake Chad Basin - about 800,000 - has soared since last year, and could spiral further as Boko Haram ramps up attacks in the region, an aid agency said on Tuesday. The jihadists’ brutal eight-year …
DM Among 3 Officials Transferred Forty-nine infants died in a month at Farrukhabad's Ram Manohar Lohia government hospital, most of them due to “perinatal asphyxia“, a condition in which the child cannot breathe properly , officials said on Monday . In a virtual replay of the tragedy in Gorakhpur, where …
With a benefit to cost ratio of 16:1 for 40 low and middle-income countries, there is a well recognized rationale, globally, for investing in Nutrition. The recently published NFHS-4 results reflect some progress, with a decline in the overall levels of under nutrition in both women and children. However, the …
The auditor department of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to start quality auditing of the civic education and health departments to make officials of these two departments more accountable while taking financial decisions. Several queries from the auditor department are pending in these two departments for the past several …
Natural environments, including green spaces, may have beneficial impacts on brain development. However, longitudinal evidence of an association between long-term exposure to green spaces and cognitive development (including attention) in children is limited. The researchers evaluated the association between lifelong residential exposure to green space and attention during preschool and …
The 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), the fourth in the NFHS series, provides information on population, health, and nutrition for India and each state and union territory. For the first time, NFHS-4 provides district-level estimates for many important indicators. All four NFHS surveys have been conducted under the stewardship …
The 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), the fourth in the NFHS series, provides information on population, health, and nutrition for India and each state and union territory. For the first time, NFHS-4 provides district-level estimates for many important indicators. All four NFHS surveys have been conducted under the stewardship …
The World Bank has said countries need to quadruple spending to $150 billion a year to deliver universal safe water and sanitation, helping to reduce childhood disease and deaths while boosting economic growth. Specifically, the report pointed out that Nigeria provided piped water to fewer than 10 per cent of …
60 per cent of affected children belong to the OBC category. Lucknow: Nearly 60 per cent of children, who suffer from encephalitis, belong to Other Backward Castes (OBC) while 28 per cent come from Scheduled Caste (SC) families. According to a survey conducted by the UP health department, 62 per …
A day after the death of three newborns at SNR District Hospital in Kolar, the authorities admitted to 90 infant deaths since January this year. However, in the report submitted to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Health Department officials claimed it was in proportion to the increase in the number of deliveries …
Food alone cannot solve the world's malnutrition crises but only three countries are looking beyond hunger to the other major driver, according to a global study released. Water, sanitation and hygiene, usually treated by governments and NGOs as a separate policy area from food and nutrition, make up the second …
