What is leading to Africa’s baby boom

The continent will witness arrival of 2 billion babies between 2015 and 2050

Programme for maternal and child malnutrition gets Rs 300 crore

It was announced last year but could not take off due to fund crunch

Bihar all set to check encephalitis

Open defecation along the Gandak in Uttar Pradesh causes the disease in Bihar, says study

Childhood immunisation begins to pick up post-pandemic, finds UN data

Recovery slow and unequal; coverage was 84% in 2022, down from 86% pre-pandemic

Age at marriage in India: A gossamer of complexities and intricate linkages

India is the home to largest number of child brides. Nearly 27 per cent women aged 20-24 years were married before attaining 18 years of age

34% of environmental indicators under SDGs lack standards

Lack of standards means there is no benchmark from which to calculate the Sustainable Development Goals

Poverty high in Ghana, but so is school enrollment

Households claim improvement in living conditions over last 10 years

Direct cash transfers reduce risk of exposure to HIV, says UNDP report

Cash payments help tackle poverty and improve access to education and healthcare

Periods in a pandemic: Women, girls in low-income settlements need more support

Measures taken to slow the spread of COVID-19 may have made things worse by affecting their ability to buy sanitary products 

Burden of birth

Maternal deaths in Bihar go unreported, while state claims maternal mortality ratio has decreased

Two billion children exposed to high levels of air pollution: UNICEF

Every year, about 600,000 children under the age of five die from diseases linked to indoor and outdoor air pollution

India launches action plan to reduce deaths among newborns

Plan aims to deal with preventable deaths in babies under a month old

COVID-19, war and hunger: Yemen’s humanitarian crisis is becoming worse

Over 10 million are on the brink of famine; as many as 400,000 children are at the risk of dying, according to UN  

The missing public

Essential healthcare services failed in Attappady: UNICEF

Doctors and staff at health centres, tribal hospital not following protocol for emergency maternal and new born care; essential drugs missing

Acute malnutrition risking 30 million children’s lives: WHO

8 million children severely malnourished; UN agencies call for urgent action to protect the most vulnerable in 15 countries

Boost for global polio eradication campaign

India's triumph can help other polio-endemic countries understand how to deal with the challenge, Deepak Kapur, chairperson of Rotary’s …

Where do Indians defecate?

Half of India's population defecates in the open. In all probability, they will continue to do so for the next 10 years

Is India really open-defecation-free? Here’s what numbers say

15% of the total population in India defecates in the open in India, according to WASH report 2021

Rainwater harvesting aids tsunami-hit Sri Lankan villages

Children make up for 80 per cent of deaths attributed to climate change

But they are the most ignored in the climate change discourse

Vaccine could have changed the course of his life

Son of a farmer, his family spent more than it could afford on his treatment

Measles catch-up campaign falls short of expectation

Health ministry officials say impact of the campaign will show results later

In Short

India shows the way for other polio-endemic nations

After India’s unexpected feat of freeing itself from polio, the target to eradicate the debilitating disease from the world, set in 1988, …