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 Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy—South Asia Regional Edition presents key changes in the leading causes of premature mortality and disability in South Asia and explores intraregional differences in diseases, injuries, and risk factors. The publication shows that non-communicable diseases are increasingly causing more premature mortality and …
Nepal MDGs Progress Report 2013 points out, the Government of Nepal’s commitment to achieving the MDGs, coupled with required policy reforms has borne fruit. Nepal is on track and is likely to achieve most of its MDG targets, despite the prolonged political instability. The targets for poverty reduction, maternal mortality, …
Foreign minister Dipu Moni on Thursday said Bangladesh and UNFPA would work closely to further improve maternal and reproductive health as well as population dynamics under post-2015 development agenda. She was speaking with Ms. Argentina Piccin, the newly appointed UNFPA country representative. Piccin was presenting her credentials to the foreign …
SAARC Development Goals are regionalized from of Millennium Development Goals, with some additional targets and indicators, for the period of five years, 2007-12. The Third SAARC Ministerial Meeting on Poverty Alleviation, held in Kathmandu on 5th April 2013, has extended the terminal year of SDGs from 2012 to 2015 to …
SHILLONG: Around 64.4 per cent of the children in the state are suffering from malnutrition while 47.2 per cent of the women are anaemic. This was revealed in a heath camp organized by the Martin Luther Christian University (MLCU) in Moodymmai village under Thadlaskein block in the Jaintia Hills district. …
A sharp rise in maternal and infant death rates has been noticed in the district, thanks to the trend of underage marriage. A significant percentage of female population here is getting married even before reaching the age of 20. There are many women in remote parts of the district where …
It suggests implementation of health, nutrition and development programmes A study by the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, on the death of tribal infants in Attappady noted that “high maternal under-nutrition of 48 per cent of adult women leading to chronic energy deficiency” resulted in the death of a large …
Recognizing Sri Lanka's need to meet the public health demands and challenges and government's efforts to improve health sector, the World Bank has granted a US$ 200 million loan to support the country's overall health sector development. The World Bank loan will provide partial support to Sri Lanka's five-year Second …
The government has planned to expand the five-year Multi-Sector Nutritional Plan (MSNP), that aims to reduce chronic malnutrition by one third of the current prevalence of 41 percent of the children under five, to 12 more districts this fiscal year, a government official said. Speaking at a programme organised to …
Acknowledging that maternal mortality rate in the state is 8.9% due to unsafe abortions and around 15,000 women die annually across the nation due to it, the NRHM (National Rural Health Mission) authorities have stressed the need of implementation of safe abortion services at health centres across all the districts …
The National Maternal and Child Health Policy was launched yesterday under the direction of Health Minister Mithripala Sirisena. The policy is timely because Sri Lanka is gradually achieving developed status, a Health Ministry spokesman said. The spokesman said the policy is also important for Sri Lanka because of the increasing …
Rated as one of the major health concerns in India, maternal mortality is slowly but steadily showing a dip, especially in the medical colleges of Assam. While the rate of maternal mortality witnessed a fall from 0.69 per cent in 2011 to 0.52 in 2012 in the Gauhati Medical College …
Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) is partnering with United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) to support the Government of Nepal (GoN) to implement programmes to improve maternal and neonatal care for unreached populations. An agreement was signed by KOICA Country Representative HaengLan Jo and UNICEF Nepal Representative Hanaa Singer in the …
Campaign For Well-Being Of Newborns And Mothers Launching a campaign for maternal and child health here on Monday, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav blamed the previous government for not doing enough to improve health scenario in the state. Titled ‘Hausla’ (courage), the campaign aims to curb maternal, neonatal, infant and child …
Taking a cue from global trends, India is beginning to turn its attention towards adolescent health, with the government in the process of finalising a National Policy on Adolescent Health. The theme of this year’s World Population Day (July 11) also centres around the wellbeing of adolescent girls, with data …
All the State governments in the northeast are likely to face a deduction of at least 7.5 per cent in Central funding under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), if New Delhi goes by its decision of reducing funding pattern. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is contemplating to …
Three out of every four estimated maternal deaths are not being reported in Madhya Pradesh, says a national rural health mission (NRHM) report presented at a regional workshop on maternal health, here on Tuesday. Poor reporting of medical termination of pregnancy (MPT) by the private practitioners is also an issue …
More than 3.5 million mothers and children under five die unnecessarily each year due to the underlying cause of undernutrition, and millions more are permanently disabled by the physical and mental effects of a poor dietary intake in the earliest months of life. By the time children reach their second …
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been the most successful global anti-poverty push in history, the report says. Significant and substantial progress has been made in meeting many of the targets—including halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and the proportion of people without sustainable access to improved …
A new series on maternal and child malnutrition in The Lancet has revealed how malnutrition can be tracked even in unborn children by linking their weight with their gestational age. The figures for India are almost a decade old and from the 2005-06 National Family Health Survey but the four …
