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Category: Millennium Development Goal

Posted on January 18, 2016June 11, 2016

India turns spotlight on adolescent health

“India has demonstrated very strong leadership in positioning adolescent health as part of continuum of care. India has taken the lead to present to the rest of the States why…

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Posted on January 17, 2016June 28, 2016

Editorial: Strengthening care of the newborn

Tamil Nadu has come to realise in a most tragic manner the high mortality risk faced by preterm babies (those born before 37 completed weeks of gestation), and its unfinished…

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Posted on January 17, 2016June 28, 2016

Editorial: Sterilisation targets endanger lives

It is at once sobering and shocking that the sterilisation procedures (laparoscopic tubectomy) carried out on 83 women at a camp in Pendari village of Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur district on November…

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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 17, 2016June 28, 2016

Coverage of antenatal care in India has to be increased: WHO

  In 2013, globally, preterm birth complications were responsible for 15 per cent (0.96 million) of deaths in children under five years of age. It is a leading cause of…

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Posted on January 17, 2016June 28, 2016

Preterm births and pneumonia kill most children under five years in India

  Of the 6.3 million deaths in children under the age of five years, nearly 44 per cent of deaths during 2000-2013 occurred during the neonatal period (0-27 days after…

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Posted on January 17, 2016June 28, 2016

‘There is fantastic immunisation coverage in India’

Both child and maternal mortality have reduced by 50 per cent since 1990, and compared with previous decades, the average rate of reduction in child mortality during this decade has…

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Posted on January 17, 2016June 28, 2016

Fastest decline in child mortality rates witnessed

  New data released today (September 16) by the United Nations Organisation show that under-five mortality rates have dropped by 49 per cent between 1990 and 2013. There has been…

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