-Down to Earth According to a UNICEF report, despite achievements, millions of children live in poverty and die before the age of five, miss schooling and suffer from Chronic Malnutrition The 11th edition of Progress for Children: Beyond Averages, a UNICEF (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) report card on child-related Millenium Development Goal (MDG), warns that the focus must be on disadvantaged children, who continue to face unequal opportunities across the...
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One child dies every minute of severe acute malnutrition. How can India save them? -Ruhi Kandhari
-Scroll.in The government is yet to frame policies on how to tackle severe acute malnutrition but non-profits have started experimenting with community-based models. Nurses call him "the boy who lived." Severely dehydrated, unconscious and weighing no more than two kilos, lighter than a healthy new born, one-year-old Subhash was brought to the Darbhanga Medical College in Bihar in February. Admitted to Malnutrition Intensive Care Unit, he was administered glucose, therapeutic milk...
More »How hungry is India? -Archana Mishra
-Tehelka The country has egg on its face but not in its diet, as the Global Hunger Index reveals acute malnutrition Swachh Bharat Mission, if implemented in a holistic fashion, holds the key to curbing not only the problem of diarrhoeal deaths for which India holds the world record, but also malnutrition. However, the World Toilet Summit, which was held in the national capital this year as part of the Mission, was...
More »Watch What Happens When Tribal Women Manage India’s Forests -Manipadma Jena
-IPS News NAYAGARH (IPS): Kama Pradhan, a 35-year-old tribal woman, her eyes intent on the glowing screen of a hand-held GPS device, moves quickly between the trees. Ahead of her, a group of men hastens to clear away the brambles from stone pillars that stand at scattered intervals throughout this dense forest in the Nayagarh district of India’s eastern Odisha state. The heavy stone markers, laid down by the British 150 years...
More »50% of India’s pregnant women anaemic: Study -Sushmi Dey
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Half of India's pregnant women are anaemic enhancing the risk of maternal mortality as well as chances of delivering babies with low birth weight, according to a study. The study by Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) shows rising incidence of malnutrition-related diseases among women, as compared to men and children. While incidence of overweight and obesity in women have increased by 34% over past three...
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