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Experts call for holistic approach to reproductive healthcare
@singh_jyotsna Issue Date: Apr 10, 2013
In a recently held consultation in Delhi on maternal and reproductive health, experts called for key shift in policy for healthcare of women. They said policy planners should look at women's health with a wide angle lens, include sexual health within the ambit of reproductive health, and make access to reproductive health services universal and free. They also stressed on the need for a holistic approach on women's health.
Budget 2013-14: provisioning for universal healthcare or moving away from agenda?
Issue Date: Feb 20, 2013
The government of India is yet to recognise and institutionalise the right to health as a universal right of every citizen. India’s public spending on health, at about one per cent of the country’s GDP, has been among the lowest in the world. On the other hand, with a high burden of out-of-pocket spending on health, millions of people are reportedly being pushed below the poverty line every year.
Push to include access to energy in UN development goals
Issue Date: Feb 2, 2013
To push for the inclusion of energy access as one of the goals in the next Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), financial institutions and non-governmental organisations held a consultation on the sidelines of the ongoing Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) in New Delhi. The current MDGs are expiring in 2015 and will be renamed as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Energy access is not a part of the current MDGs. The three day DSDS ends today.
Rush for new development goals
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2012
The future we do not want
Issue Date: Jun 25, 2012
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, came to an end last week. The conference declaration, titled “The Future We Want”, is a weak and meaningless document. It aims at the lowest common denominator consensus to say nothing consequential about how the world will move ahead to deal with the interlinked crises of economy and ecology. The question arises: is this the future we want or the future we dread?
'South Asia, Africa show poor progress towards MDGs'
Issue Date: Jun 13, 2012
Maternal deaths have halved and child deaths have decreased significantly between 1990 and 2010. But countries in South Asia and Africa have shown poor progress in saving their mothers and new born children, says a report put together by WHO, UNICEF and academics.
Health millennium goals neglected in Asia-Pacific region: UN report
Issue Date: Feb 18, 2012
Hunger, child mortality and maternal mortality remain high in the Asia-Pacific region, making it difficult for the countries in the region to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, says a UN report released on Friday in New Delhi.
