Child well-being in an unpredictable world
<p>The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality,
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Mother-child mortality rates in steady decline
Common cold, skin infections, diarrhoea and skin disorders were the main cause of health problems for children under five years old in Bhutan, according to the annual health bulletin 2008. Last year 54,781 cases of common cold, 22,472 cases of diarrhoea, and 23,817 cases of skin infections were recorded across the country. Of the 13,851 children born last year, 61 were stillbirths and foetal death, followed by 98 neonatal deaths. Ten children were born with STD.
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Bicycles distributed among girl students
Under the Chief Minister's Asom Bikash Yojana, under which bicycles have been provided to the girl students of Class VIII and IX from the BPL families, the Minister for Irrigation, Fishery and Soil Conservation Nurjamal Sarker ceremoniously distributed 288 bicycles free of cost to different girl students, in the first phase from various educational institutions under Biswanath subdivision at a colourful function held at the Ekadash Smriti Bhawan in Biswanath Chariali recently.
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Basic lesson
For seven-year-old Gopal Tanaji Vanwe, home is not one place. With his parents, migrant farm labourers, Gopal moves from district to district. It
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Tackling the silent killer: the case for sanitation
This paper does not seek to privilege sanitation at the expense of other sectors. Rather, it seeks to prioritise sanitation, alongside safe water, as part of an integrated approach to development.
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District leadership key to purge polio: TAG
- International experts, invited to Pakistan by the Federal Health Ministry for technical review and guidance in the wake of number of polio cases reported in Sindh province, has stressed urgent measures and have held the district leadership as the key to give polio eradication drive a shot in the arm with a view to finally ridding the country of the disease that causes permanent irreversible disability among children.
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Polio vaccine age limit likely to be raised
The Sindh health department is expected to place the issue of vulnerability of children beyond five years to polio in a meeting of international experts on polio eradication scheduled to be held in the city on June 24 and 25. Sources in the health department said that prior to the emergence of cases of polio among children above five years of age, the authorities had no clue to the pattern of the disease in this age group, and now they were considering raising the age-limit for polio vaccination from five to 10 years, to provide protection to children in this age bracket as well.
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Poverty keeps char children off school in Lalmonirhat
Children in Lalmonirhat char areas are being deprived of education as their parents have sent them to income generating works for earning their livelihood. Utter poverty has forced most of the parents in the char areas to send their children to work for earning livelihood, local people said. Besides, many parents in char areas do no want their children to go to schools as they have no knowledge about the importance of education. According to River Map, a local non-government organisation, about 10,000 children,
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Govt is unable to check child labour
Even as the Delhi government conducts seminars and brainstorming ses
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East on the rise: Bihar, Bengal put record no. of kids back in school
Bring National Average Of Out-Of-School Kids Down From 76L To 45L Bihar and West Bengal, always the subject of ridicule among policy planners, have created a record of sorts by contributing the maximum in bringing down the national figure of out-ofschool children in the agegroup of 6-14 from 75.97 lakh in March last year to 45.05 lakh in March this year. What lends further credence to the efforts of these states is that the maximum number of children who have started going back to school are Muslims, SCs and STs.
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June - Nutrition Month
The Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry has declared June as the 'Nutrition Month' under the direction of Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva. This is aimed at upgrading the nutrition level of infants, children and mothers, a Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry spokesman said. He said Sri Lanka's infant and maternal mortality rate is very low when comparing with the other countries of the world but the people's interest in nutrition is very unsatisfactory. Due to this situation, people do not follow proper methods to preserve nutrition when preparing food.