Sugar tax may be the bitter pill to cut obesity
After years of waiting, the World Health Organisation (WHO) finally took a stand on January 25 and urged governments to levy taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages to end childhood obesity. The…
Category: UNICEF
‘India has the potential to end all preventable child deaths’
Dr Mickey Chopra, global head of UNICEF’s health programmes explained to me why he was very encouraged by the efforts taken by the government to reduce child mortality, and…
Editorial: No reason to cheer
On the face of it, India may appear to have made great strides in reducing the maternal mortality rate by 65 per cent, from 569 per one lakh live births…
Editorial: More than baby steps required
One more health-status indicator has recently been published, and as expected, India brings up the rear. Despite reducing under-five mortality from 2.5 million in 2001 to 1.4 million in 2012,…
Editorial: Lost childhood
Published in The Hindu on October 22, 2012 The alarmingly high prevalence of child marriages in India became known globally when International Day of the Girl Child was celebrated for…
‘India is drowning in its own excreta’
Published in The Hindu on June 14, 2012 Sixty per cent of the “global total” who do not have access to toilets live in India, and hence are forced to…
