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Category: UNICEF

Posted on January 31, 2016July 6, 2016

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…

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Posted on January 17, 2016June 28, 2016

‘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…

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Posted on January 16, 2016June 28, 2016

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…

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Posted on January 13, 2016July 20, 2016

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,…

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Posted on January 11, 2016

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…

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Posted on January 11, 2016

‘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…

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