09-09-2009 Community mobilisation and sensitisation play critical role in achieving holistic development of a child, says a new report jointly released by Save the Children and Public Interest Foundation in India’s national capital. There is a need to take small efforts that can multiply with the greater involvement of people.
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02-09-2009 The Women Courtyard initiative in Afghanistan is helping prevent newborn deaths by spreading the word on polio immunization and other vaccine preventable diseases. Groups of women are trained as health workers, who then visit households to reach out to mothers and children.
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04-06-2009 A UNDP project in Nepal’s Jumla district is being implemented to provide better health services and reduce malnutrition. As part of efforts to localise MDGs, mothers are taught about proper nutritious diet for their babies and other essential steps to ensure children’s growth.
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01-06-2009 The sick and newborn care unit at a hospital in western India is proving to be a lifesaver for infants. The state-of-the-art facility provides free of cost treatment to those below poverty line and is being replicated across the state to reduce the infant mortality rate.
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12-05-2009 A new report by WaterAid reveals that children are dying more due to poor sanitation than diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Increased investments in sanitation would significantly bring down child mortality.
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30-04-2009 Children of shorter mothers are 70% more likely to die due to underweight and anaemia, says a study about India by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health. Another key finding suggests the presence of inter-generational transfer of poor health from mother to offspring.
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07-04-2009 In Pakistan’s Sindh province, child mortality rate is alarmingly high and is, in fact, worse than the national average. Children in this region have little immunity to diseases like diarrhoea, acute respiratory infections and TB due to malnutrition.
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01-04-2009 The United Nations has said that Bangladesh is battling "a silent emergency" with nearly half of the impoverished country's children under age 5 suffering from chronic malnutrition. The world body has called for urgent action and suggested expansion of government’s welfare policies.
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16-01-2009 Pneumonia is responsible for large number of deaths among under-five children in Pakistan. The government is hopeful that the introduction of a new vaccine will help reduce the rate of infection and fatalities.
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08-10-2008 In the tribal belts of Maharashtra in western India, a high nutrition diet programme has significantly reduced mortality rates in the state. Provided jointly by two NGOs through the anganwadis, the meal for mother and child contains locally made mixture of millet, jaggery and milk.
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