-Frontline The Central government's proposal to hand over the supply of supplementary nutrition to NGOs in the name of "community participation" is surely an invitation for private profiteering on the back of this supposedly public scheme. ENSURING safe and healthy conditions for the reproduction of the population is obviously the most fundamental requirement of any society. So the progress of a society can be determined (and indeed is routinely judged) by the...
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Health gap between countries is narrowing, but challenges remain–UN report
-The United Nations The health gap between poor and rich countries has narrowed significantly over the past two decades according to a United Nations report released today, which stresses that in spite of this progress, challenges still remain to achieve the health targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). "Intensive efforts to achieve the MDGs have clearly improved health for people all over the world," said the Director-General of the World Health...
More »Over 300,000 day-old babies die each year in India: report
-AFP More than 300,000 babies die within 24 hours of being born in India each year from infections and other preventable causes, a report said Tuesday, blaming a lack of political will and funding for the crisis. India accounts for 29% of all newborn deaths worldwide, according to the charity ‘Save the Children' which published the findings at the launch of its annual State of the World's Mothers report. The report on 186...
More »South India lags national fertility rate, slows population boom -Saswati Mukherjee B
-The Times of India BANGALORE: India's burgeoning population appears to be both a problem and an advantage. Very soon, the southern states are likely to stare at an un-Indian situation: a shrinking populace, owing to a sharp dip in the fertility rate of women. Analyzing the 2011 Census data, the Population Research Centre of the Bangalore-based Institute for Social and Economic Change found that many southern districts, a significant number of them...
More »UN report reiterates a public secret: India is worse than Pak for women -Arlene Chang
-First Post Along with its dismal Human Development Index (HDI), India also has a very poor Gender Inequality Index, which is among the worst in the world, according to the latest UN Human Development Report released on Thursday. Except Afghanistan which stood at a rank of 147 compared to India’s 132, all countries in the South Asia region and also China were ranked way higher than it on the Gender Inequality Index,...
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