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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80 per cent of babies born from HIV positive mothers are free
The country has registered strides in the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) with more than 80 percent HIV free babies born from HIV positive mothers. Ministry of Health Spokesperson,
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Save the children, Lagos government, others launch pneumonia report
Save the Children International, in collaboration with Lagos State Government and other human interest organisations have launched a global report on Pneumonia. The report aimed at creating awareness
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African Leaders Part of Global Response to Malnutrition Crisis as Over $3.4 Billion is Committed at Global Nutrition Summit 2017
Milan — African leaders gathered at a summit to address the global crisis of malnutrition helped to galvanise US3.4bn including US$640 million in new commitments, organisers said today. The Global Nutrition
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Africa: Global Nutrition Crisis Threatens Human Development, Demands 'Critical Step Change' in Response- Report
Milan — Almost every country in the world now faces a serious nutrition-related challenge, whether stemming from undernutrition or obesity, the authors of The Global Nutrition Report 2017 said today.
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Global Nutrition Report 2017: Nourishing the SDGs
The Global Nutrition Report 2017, launched at the Global Nutrition Summit in Milan, Italy, highlights the need for an urgent and integrated response to global nutrition if we are to meet the Sustainable
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20 children in Bageshwar fall sick after measles, rubella vaccination
NAINITAL: Around 21 students of Vijaypur Inter College, a government-aided school in Kanda village of Kumaon’s Bageshwar district were admitted to the district hospital late on Tuesday after complaining
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Fighting for breath- A call to action on childhood pneumonia
<p>This report focuses on what is now the single biggest cause of child deaths through infectious disease. Pneumonia is a disease of poverty. Fatalities are concentrated in the world’s poorest countries.
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‘33% of Liberian Children Are Malnourished’
Minister Carey: "We have instituted a special leadership to run the program at the ministry." -Says Deputy Commerce Min. Carey; launches food fortification alliance today The Ministry of Commerce and
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Over 73% of paints found to have excessive lead: Study
Exposure To Chemical Can Do Irreversible Damage To Kids More than 73% of household decorative paints, collected from several regions across the capital, were found containing exceedingly high levels of
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Measles kill 10, more admitted in S. Sudan’s Payinjiar county
Stephen Gatliah Kuay, a county health supervisor, said on Wednesday that seven of the 10 children died before reaching the area health facility. He described as “worrying” the situation in the area,