Globally, one in four children is stunted

India is home to the largest number of stunted children in the world

Leading the way to brain damage

India has yet to tackle the problem of leaded petrol, which causes brain damage in children

Good gas

Water for thought

Having no appeal

Polychlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons retard children's sexual maturation

A sure shot

Hepatitis B vaccine should not be administered to all children

Lure of the puff

Every second extreme poor in the world is a child

India has some 52 million children in extreme poverty, according to an assessment by World Bank and UNICEF  

Killer hospitals: Primary healthcare key to curb child deaths

Doctors at Odisha’s Vimsar hospital say if primary healthcare improves, the death toll at bigger hospitals would be fewer

What mapping Kenya’s child deaths for 50 years revealed – and why it matters

Kenya performed well above average, with a rate of 46 deaths per 1,000 live births compared to an average of 76 across sub-Saharan Africa region

Incremental child budget won’t bring transformational change

If tomorrow’s budget sticks to being just about an incremental change of numbers, nothing much will change. Transformation always needs …

Malnutrition among tribal children

Malnutrition is unacceptably higher among India’s tribal population than other communities. Among tribal children under five, 51.1 per cent …

Musings on the Independence of the Other India

Even after 71 years of independence, 1 in 11 children in India is a child labourer, 1 in every 3 is malnourished, only 3 in every 10 children …

World Breastfeeding Week 2023: Supportive workplaces needed to reach global breastfeeding targets

Rate of breastfeeding at 48%, up by 10 percentage points over past decade, say WHO & UNICEF

Pregnancy pangs

INDIA

AIDS SCARE

Checking infection

Painful influenza shots may soon become a thing of the past

Child killer

High toll

Mystery fever hits Arunachal

Text care

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Every 2.5 seconds, a child dies

Stunted

Lagging behind

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