UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
New Delhi: Though India has seen a dramatic fall in maternal mortality rate (MMR) by 59% between 1990 and 2008, the country is still home to highest number of women dying during childbirth across the world. India
The country has made progress in reducing infant mortality but it is still some distance from its 2015 target Indicus Analytics / September 9, 2010, 0:39 IST According to the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations, India has the target of reducing the infant mortality rate (IMR) to …
Ranchi, Sept. 8: After Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand is set to become the second state in the country to have dedicated nutritional rehabilitation centres in all the 24 districts, which will provide children with locally available therapeutic food. The initiative follows the 21 malnutrition treatment centres (MTCs) that were set up …
A survey conducted by the UNICEF has shown significant rise in major indicators of the maternal and child healthcare, including immunisation in India. The Coverage Evaluation Survey 2009 (CES-2009), a nationwide survey, covering all the States and Union Territories was conducted during November 2009 to January 2010, says institutional delivery …
The United Nations (UN) System (WFP, UNDP and UNICEF) has extended its support to 14,000 cyclone Aila affected families still living on embankments in Bangladesh. Drawing assistance from the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), the UN agencies will work to distribute food, assist with shelter and implement basic Water, …
Mumbai A state-run corporation has got World Health Organisation (WHO) recognition for its bivalent polio vaccine. The Parel-based Haffkine Biopharmaceuticals Corporation Limited (HBPCL) supplied 10 million doses last week as its first consignment to the Centre and UNICEF for distribution under the National Polio Survelliance Programme. HBPCL was formed by …
An action plan is being chalked out by experts from India and abroad for ending malnutrition in the state. In this connection, a workshop will be held at Hotel Jehan Numa Palace at Bhopal on June 9. The workshop has been organised jointly by Women and Child Development, Public Health …
Only 5 Years Left To Meet The Target Of Millennium Development Goals At the beginning of this millennium in year 2000, 189 countries and 23 international health agencies had pledged to reduce child under-5 mortality by two-thirds and maternal mortality by three-fourths by 2015. These were called the Millennium Development …
JORHAT, June 3: An unusually high content of iron in the groundwater of the Northeastern states has posed a serious threat to the people living in this part of the country. It is found that, almost all the states of the region contain iron above the permissible level in drinking …
Pune A workshop on Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) was recently held at the regional centre of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Aundh. Conducted jointly with the UNICEF, the workshop had several modules that trained the participants on how to reduce infant mortality. Manuals with hands-on …
ACCORDING to paediatric specialists and nutritionists, around 240 children die every day in Bangladesh because of malnutrition and about 110 babies for not getting breast milk within one hour of birth. The figure has been estimated on the basis of some reports published by the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, …
Shivpuri: Kartar Adivasi, a one-year-old, weighed just 6.342 kg when he was admitted to the nutritional rehabilitation centre (NRC) at Narwar in Madhya Pradesh. Born to Banwari and Binia of village Kiranpura (Barkhadi), the child was kept at the NRC for 14 days and then under followup care at his …
- GPS to map sources in East Singhbhum under Unicef-funded pilot project Jamshedpur, April 29: People of East Singhbhum will not only have access to clean drinking water soon, they will also get information about the quality of water via global positioning system (GPS). The state drinking water and sanitation …
The stench of a report released last week by the United Nations University's Institute for Water, Environment and Health in New York City brought the world's attention to the fact that India's vast open spaces are a latrine for half the population. To drive home the point Zafar Adeel, director …
There could not have been a better gift for 40,000 girls studying in 454 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBV) in Uttar Pradesh. A Swedish company, Ikea
New Delhi: Planning Commission has asked the ministry for women and child development (WCD) to consider a paradigm policy shift and focus on children between 0-2 years of age as against the current practice of addressing the nutritional concerns of children from 6 months to 5 years through ICDS programme. …
