Waking up to the horrors of child labour
Several groups are working among child workers in India, seeking to improve their working and living conditions
Failure from the jaws of success
Chhattisgarh reduced infant mortality a few years ago, but threw away the good work
What makes one poor in India
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022 shows lack of access to nutrition, fuel, housing and sanitation keeps millions in poverty
No school can be without a playground: Supreme Court
SC gives a year’s time to encroachers to vacate Gram Panchayat land meant for school
Climate change will cause more African children to die from hot weather
There were between 12,000 and 19,000 heat-related child deaths per year in Africa from 2011 through 2020
India’s monkeypox outbreak may not be linked to European superspreader events
NIV-Pune finds evidence of another lineage in Kerala samples; it suggests a distinct cluster of human-human transmission, possibly unrecognised …
Nearly 10 million children in Horn of Africa in ‘greatest danger’ due to drought, says UNICEF
UNICEF has sought $250 million to help children facing drought in the region
Union Budget 2021-22: India's nutrition programme put on a diet
The budget has proposes Mission Poshan 2.0 to improve nutritional status of the country but has reduced funds
Birth, death registration improves across states: NFHS-5
Rate of registration of births was higher among surveyed state, UTs. The lowest was in Nagaland at 73%
Why mushrooms should be included under ICDS and MDM scheme
Mushrooms in one’s daily diet will eventually promote a healthy body, behaviour and brain power
Odisha plans to introduce millets in PDS, mid-day meal by year end
The initiative will be launched in nine districts in a phased manner over a period of five years
At least 750,000 children at risk of contracting water-borne diseases in Eastern Ukraine: UNICEF
Eastern Ukraine’s drinking water supply has been affected as vital water infrastructures are damaged due to the conflict
Lake Chad Basin: 1.4 million children displaced; many suffer from malnutrition
About 67,000 children under five are likely to die in Nigeria’s Borno and Yobe states in September
Punjab bans sale of junk food in schools
Private schools have been asked to declare that junk food is not sold in their premises. Manipur, Orissa, Chandigarh and Madhya Pradesh have …
South Africa's remarkable journey out of the dark decade of AIDS denialism
Activists, health-care workers and scientists in South Africa were faced with a horrific epidemic but went on a ruthless crusade to turn it around
Yellow fever grips DRC, Angola
More than 11 million doses of the yellow fever vaccine have been sent to Angola since February this year and more than 2 million to DRC
Scientists announce final trial results of world’s most advanced malaria vaccine
Vaccine can prevent a substantial number of cases of clinical malaria, especially in areas of high transmission rates
How the state fails its little ones
Jyotsna Singh visits anganwadis to find out why a large number of children suffer from malnutrition despite welfare programmes for them
Fever still a mystery
Authorities yet to identify cause of deadly disease prevalent in Muzaffarpur for a decade
"Doctors too need education"
Dr S K Chabbra, reader and head of the department of cardiorespiratory physiology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, New Delhi, is among the few …
Left to quacks
Unauthorized medical practitioners find business where Bihar’s health machinery deserts polio victims
Investment in girls’ education critical to arrest child marriages in Jharkhand
In Jharkhand, child marriages account for 7.3 per cent of marriages in rural areas and 3 per cent in urban areas
Multiple exclusions push Odisha’s children into malnutrition death
Nearly 90 per cent of the rural tribal households live in extreme distress conditions with no liquid cash
70% of all maternal deaths in 2020 were in sub-Saharan Africa: UN report
Not only is sub-Saharan Africa the fulcrum of maternal deaths, but most HIV-related indirect maternal deaths also occur here
Human Rights Day: How children use their agency to build a safer, greener environment
Young crusaders in the Sundarbans are making efforts to convince community members to plant trees and nurture them so that their future is safeguarded