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. …
:United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) would provide Bangladesh with 70 million US dollars for the next five years for the maternal health and family planning activities, an UNFPA official said in Dhaka on Tuesday. "We would give US70m to the Bangladesh government for the next five years (2012-16) …
This paper presents primary data collected from two districts of Surat and Kutch in Gujarat and examines how and to what extent the decentralised system of governance has contributed to delivery of health services in rural areas of Gujarat. It finds several lacunae and shortcomings in the delivery by panchayati …
"Mishri" is one among the various smokeless tobacco products used in the central and southern part of India. The use of newer tobacco products is increasing not only among men, but also among children, teenagers, and women of the reproductive age-group. The objective of the study was to study socio-demographic …
India is at the door step of the Twelfth five-year plan starting from April 2012, which will see the country through the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is imperative therefore, the proximity or distance from the MDG-targets in terms of the statistical measures demonstrated in …
In recent years public-private partnerships have been offered as the miracle-cure that would help fix all the challenges to the health sector. Over the last decade, a number of ppps providing maternal health services have come into existence but few have been evaluated. This paper examines whether ppps with the …
“A child is God’s gift. Nobody must seek to know its sex in advance. It is God’s choice,” observed the Bombay high court while upholding a civic circular disallowing portable sonography machines to be taken to patients’ home. A division bench of justice PB Majmudar and justice Mridula Bhatkar dismissed …
With the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) insisting on providing separate legal entitlements to some sections — pregnant women, lactating mothers, homeless, destitute and disaster affected households — in the proposed food security law, the Food Ministry is set to insist on state governments sharing the cost to fund …
Shillong, Nov. 7: Research is under way to ascertain the reasons behind the prevalence of anaemia among women, as Meghalaya’s maternal mortality rate is reported to be higher than the national average. Last year, the maternal mortality rate was 238 per 100,000 deliveries, while the national average was 212 only. …
The deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is 2015--only 4 years ahead. Although much progress has been made, much more has yet to be made. The same is true also for Bangladesh. The report summarizes the current global status of the health-related MDGs.
This paper evaluates the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) as a framework for measuring development and, subject to qualifications arising from that evaluation, assesses how India is doing in terms of the MDGs.
President Mohamed Nasheed has said that experts estimate the population of Maldives to reach 400,000 by the year 2025. In his weekly radio address delivered Friday morning, the President spoke on the world population reaching a record 7 billion next Monday, noting that it was an achievement in many aspects. …
Though there have been signs of some improvement in the female sex ratio in Himachal Pradesh, state’s health is exploring possibilities of introducing an innovative scheme called ‘mother tracking’. Gujarat has successfully adopted this model for women and child health care. The scheme, which is expected to be functional next …
Bhubaneswar: In a bid to improve the maternal and child healthcare practices in the state, the Odisha government on Wednesday launched the state-funded scheme Mamata. Under this scheme, nearly six lakh pregnant women will be covered every year with an annual disbursement of Rs 350 crore. Inaugurating the scheme at …
New Delhi: Institutional deliveries, where children are delivered at health centres or hospitals, have picked up in India over the last five-odd years. Around 60 lakh more infants were born in safe confines of healthcare centres in 2010-11 as compared to 2005-06. \ According to health ministry records, India saw …
New tests are coming to market that can detect Down syndrome in a fetus using a sample of the mother’s blood, potentially reducing the need for riskier invasive tests while also stirring ethical concerns. Researchers say the new tests may not be reliable enough yet to replace amniocentesis or chorionic …
Clean cookstoves that burn more efficiently and channel smoke outside could save millions of lives around the world, but only if the cooks themselves are part of the solution, scientists reported on Thursday. The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (cleancookstoves.org), headed by the United Nations Foundation and championed by U.S. …
Suggests Policy Change To Address Low Female Participation NewDelhi:With one million girls ‘missing’ in India, a World Bank report has cautioned that this continued economic gap between men and women could spell disaster for the country. Female labour force participation in south Asia (including India) is among the lowest in …
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) announced on Tuesday that it would activate life-saving activities in the flood-affected areas of Sindh, particularly for the pregnant women there. About 1.4 million women of child-bearing age in the most severely affected districts of Badin, Tando Mohammad Khan, Tando Allahyar, Nawabshah, Mirpurkhas, Khairpur, …
This publication is a compilation of responses from civil society organisations to the Draft Approach Paper to the 12th Five-Year Plan.It presents a detailed critique of the Approach Paper in areas such as education, gender, youth development, land issues, water and sanitation, among others.
This special edition is a supplement to the last report, which was brought out for the year 2009 in the form of a mid-term statistical appraisal of the country situation towards attaining the MDG targets. This supplementary issue attempts to present the sub-national situation in terms of the State-level estimates …
