Dietary guidelines for India 2024
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recently revised the dietary guidelines for Indians to provide healthier diet and lifestyle recommendations, ensuring dietary and nutritional requirements
Child Health
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Pb brings experts to dispel anti-MR vaccination drive
With the misinformation campaign affecting the ambitious Measles-Rubella vaccination programme, the Punjab Government on Thursday took the help of the experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and
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Hundreds of thousands of children close to dying of hunger in Congo, UN warns
Internally displaced and severely acute malnourished children wait to receive medical attention at a hospital in Kasai-Oriental province,DRC. Internally displaced children with severe acute malnutrition
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22 babies died daily within 28 days of birth: RTI reply
Doctors emphasise need for protocol for newborn intensive care As many as 13,541 children under the age of five died in the State in a span of 11 months, a Right to Information (RTI) application has
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80% children suffering from diarrhoea given antibiotics
Though the government is spending a fortune on propagating the use of Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) for children suffering from diarrhoea, doctors at government dispensaries in Punjab and Haryana are giving
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Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding functioning of mid-day meal scheme, 08/05/2018
<p>Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Antarrashtriya Manav Adhikaar Nigraani Parishad Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/05/2018 regarding functioning of Mid Day Meal Scheme. Supreme
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Kenya: Immunization Rate Plummeted to 63% in 2017, Lowest in Five Years- Report
Nairobi — Full Immunization Coverage (FIC) declined from 69 per cent in 2016 to 63 per cent last year, the lowest in five years according to the latest economic survey released by the Kenya National Bureau
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U.N. calls for urgent aid to Sahel as hunger crisis looms
Five million people in West Africa's Sahel region will need food aid in the coming months following a drought, but current funding will be insufficient to prevent starvation, the United Nations said on
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Kenya ‘polio free dream’ to take time
Kenya will not be certified polio-free this year as planned as live viruses have been found in sewage samples collected from Nairobi. The Ministry of Health was notified by Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Uganda launches major vaccination drive as deadly cholera outbreak bites
Uganda has launched a major cholera vaccination campaign in an effort to contain an outbreak that has killed 45 people in the country’s overcrowded refugee camps this year. With the rainy season approaching,
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Antimicrobial resistance in invasive bacterial infections in hospitalized children, Cambodia, 2007–2016
<p>To determine trends, mortality rates, and costs of antimicrobial resistance in invasive bacterial infections in hospitalized children, we analyzed data from Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap,