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. …
Fourteen years ago world leaders unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration, which sought to harness the uneven process of globalization as a historic opportunity “to create a shared future, based upon our common humanity in all its diversity”. The Millennium Development Goals framework, adopted at the same time, was the concrete …
The UN will formulate ambitious Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, including one for health. Feasible goals with some quantifiable, measurable targets can influence governments. We propose, as a quatitative health target, “Avoid in each country 40% of premature deaths (under-70 deaths that would be seen in the 2030 population at …
Little is known about the potential health effects of eating organic food either in the general population or during pregnancy. The aim of this study was to examine associations between organic food consumption during pregnancy and the risk of pre-eclampsia among nulliparous Norwegian women. Original Source
The use of insecticide treated nets (ITNs), and subsequently the new generation of long-lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs), has been a core malaria prevention strategy for more than two decades, and until 2010, distribution of LLINs targeted biologically vulnerable groups such as pregnant women and children aged less than 5 …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that there was no lack of resources for making State completely healthy. For this public awareness should be created. Health was not related only to Government, but to all families. Chouhan urged the society to work shoulder to shoulder with Government to ensure …
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s population has risen to 27.1 million with 17 per cent of total countrymen living in urban areas. The population is projected to reach 35.2 million by middle of the century, according to a major study. “Nepal’s 27,140,000 population is predicted to rise to 31.7 million by mid 2030 …
This is the eleventh volume of Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries published by the Statistics Department of the African Development Bank Group. The publication provides some information on the broad development trends relating to gender, poverty and environmental issues in the 53 African countries.
Thyroid dysfunction is associated with impaired cognitive development. Perchlorate decreases thyroidal iodine uptake, potentially reducing thyroid hormone production. It is unclear whether perchlorate exposure in early life affects neuro development. : During 2002–2006, 21,846 women at gestational age 16 weeks recruited from antenatal clinics in Cardiff, UK and Turin, Italy …
WHO recommends prompt diagnosis and quinine plus clindamycin for treatment of uncomplicated malaria in the first trimester and artemisinin-based combination therapies in subsequent trimesters. We undertook a systematic review of women's access to and healthcare provider adherence to WHO case management policy for malaria in pregnant women.
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are developmental toxicants but the impact of both maternal and paternal exposures on offspring birth size is largely unexplored. The objective of the study was to examine associations between maternal and paternal serum concentrations of 63 POPs, comprising five major classes of pollutants, with birth size …
Plasmodium falciparum infection during pregnancy leads to adverse outcomes including low birthweight; however, contemporary estimates of the potential burden of malaria in pregnancy in Africa (in the absence of interventions) are poor. We aimed to estimate the need to protect pregnant women from malaria across Africa. Original Source
The objective of the study was to quantify maternal, fetal and neonatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries, to identify when deaths occur and to identify relationships between maternal deaths and stillbirths and neonatal deaths. A prospective study of pregnancy outcomes was performed in 106 communities at seven sites in …
Millennium Development Goals: Bangladesh Progress Report 2013 is the seventh report monitoring the progress of MDGs in Bangladesh after 2005. This report is prepared and published by the General Economics Division (GED) of the Planning Commission after taking inputs from different Ministries/Divisions/Agencies that are implementing various programmes/projects with the aim …
Maternal deaths during the pregnancy period or due to post-natal complications have drastically reduced in the Northern Province over the last few years. This was revealed at the National Maternal Death reviews conducted for 2013 in Jaffna and Vavuniya recently. According to the reviews, Sri Lanka reports a low maternal …
FANS of the China model frequently say that, for all the disadvantages of a one-party state, there are also benefits. Enforcing basic health care is one—and by no means a small one. Last year China’s mortality rate for children under five years old was just one-fifth the rate it was …
Progress in newborn survival has been slow, and even more so for reductions in stillbirths. To meet Every Newborn targets of ten or fewer neonatal deaths and ten or fewer stillbirths per 1000 births in every country by 2035 will necessitate accelerated scale-up of the most effective care targeting major …
UMERKOT: Unrelenting drought-like conditions and delay in rains in Thar have caused deaths of four more newborn babies over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll of children to 57 during 45 days in Umerkot and Tharparkar districts. About 388 children died between March and May this year though …
The number of people who are newly infected with HIV is continuing to decline in most parts of the world. There were 2.1 million [1.9 million–2.4 million] new HIV infections in 2013—a decline of 38% from 2001, when there were 3.4 million [3.3 million–3.6 million] new infections. In the past …
Says one third of the world's 1.2 billion extreme poor lived in India alone in 2010 India continues to battle poverty, child and maternal deaths, according to a United Nations report on the Millennium Development Goals that said while several key global targets have been met, more sustained effort is …
UN urges final push on global targets that have shown little improvement, notably those related to women and children. Achieving global targets to reduce maternal and child deaths and increase access to improved sanitation facilities by 2015 is "slipping away", despite significant progress in the past 14 years, the UN …
