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 …
C Shivakumar | ENS About 75 per cent of the world's under-five deaths in 2008 took place in only 18 countries. Of this, half of the deaths occurred in only five countries - India, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and China SOUTH Asia accounted for 32 per cent …
The nutrition levels of displaced children under 5 years of age living in welfare villages in the North have significantly improved since their arrival in the camps in May, Secretary to the Ministry of Health and Nutrition Dr. Athula Kahandaliyanage said yesterday. Addressing the media, Dr Kahandaliyanage said two nutrition …
More than 200 countries, including poor ones like Bangladesh, have been able to eradicate polio from their soil, but the deadly disease continues to haunt India with at least 395 cases reported from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. What was considered to be a matter of solace for …
UNICEF has launched Total Sanitation Campaign throughout the State. As a part of the programme, the organisation organised some exceptional functions in several villages of Mayong revenue circle. As a nodal agency of UN organisation, the Public Health Engineering (PHE) organised essay completion, extempore speech among the school students. About …
The federal cabinet approved the National Drinking Water Policy on Monday, which stipulates that the respective tiers of the government devise strategies and action plans to ensure access to safe drinking water for the entire nation by 2025. The Ministry of Environment, in collaboration with the United Nations Children
When documentary filmmaker Sudhesh Unniraman, 38, was approached by a producer from AIM Television to document the plight of the Ganga, he knew there was not much research to be done.
UNICEF and UNFPA to support the move British Council to provide films on eco-education JAIPUR: Two U.N. organisations have extended their support to a sensitisation workshop on climate change being held here this coming Wednesday to strengthen public focus on the new global standards likely to be set beyond the …
For elimination of poliovirus in the metropolis, it would be ensured that 100 percent children are administered polio vaccine. This was decided at a meeting of the City District Government Karachi (CDGK). A statement on Tuesday said that the District Coordination Officer Javed Hanif Khan presided over the meeting. Representative …
For elimination of poliovirus in the metropolis, it would be ensured that 100 percent children are administered polio vaccine. This was decided at a meeting of the City District Government Karachi (CDGK). A statement on Tuesday said that the District Coordination Officer Javed Hanif Khan presided over the meeting. Representative …
One of the major factors affecting the health and growth of children in the State is lack of easy accessibility to immunization services. Lack of information regarding nutrition and inaccessibility to nutritious food have also become a matter of concern with more than 50 per cent of children in the …
Malnourished children of the Kolhan division can now bite into their share of healthy and nutritious food with the first therapeutic food processing unit in the country being set up at the anganwadi training centre in Kadma. The unit, where specialised food packets for undernourished children up to five years …
THANKS to some mindless frenzy whipped up by the media, we are terribly concerned about swine flu, because deaths in double digits have been recorded in a country of a billion people. One wonders why the press has never been even mildly vociferous about the pathetic hygiene standards of our …
Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra) in collaboration with Netherlands and Unicef, has launched Hygiene Promotion Component of Water Quality Improvement and Promotion of Hygiene (WAQIPH) Project to reduce risk of public health and degradation of living standard in earthquake affected areas. Deputy Chairman Erra, Lieutenant General Sajjad Akram inaugurated …
Feed malnutrition with policy India has eight million malnourished children. Yet the country has no policy on what food should be given to treat malnutrition. Lack of policy has led international development agencies to adopt varied approaches like giving highly nutritious ready-to-use food. Such measures have often led to confusion …
Heritage Walk On Saturday Followed Metro Route To Bring Alive Sepoy Mutiny, Reports Richi Verma A German national, a commercial pilot, a retired couple, an MNC executive. Everyday problems apart, this motley group shares a common concern
Experts at a press briefing yesterday said initiation of breastfeeding within one hour of birth can prevent one-third of neonatal deaths in the country every year. They also disclosed that around 240 under-five children die every day for not having breastfeeding properly. To mark the Global Breastfeeding Week 2009 from …
Federal Minister for Environment Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi, on Wednesday, said that according to estimates, water, sanitation and hygiene related diseases cost Pakistan's economy about Rs 112 billion per year, over Rs 300 million a day in terms of health cost. He added that out of this, the cost associated …
