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Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Report Says Seven Innovations Could Save 2 Mi
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Seattle [US], September 12: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today released its seventh annual Goalkeepers Report, describing where the world has collectively fallen short at the halfway point for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and where innovation
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Global Hunger Index doesn't really measure hunger: ICMR
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 18 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said that the Global Hunger Index (GHI) does not really measure hunger.
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India achieves significant landmarks in reducing child mortality
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 24 (ANI): India has achieved significant landmark in the reduction of Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), Under 5 Mortality Rate (U5MR)and Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR), the government said on Friday.
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World Birth Defects Day: WHO seeks to raise awareness, intensifies measure
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 2 (ANI): The World Health Organization has defined birth defects as structural or functional anomalies (for example, metabolic disorders) that occur during intrauterine life. They can be identified during pregnancy, at birth and at times, detected only later. Birth d
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Coronavirus inflicted child mortality rates higher in Pakistan highlights
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 11 (ANI): Coronavirus inflicted mortality rates is higher in Pakistan than in the other parts of the world according to a study.
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AP CM launches PVC drive to control child mortaility
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Amravati [Andhra Pradesh] (India), August 25 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has launched the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) drive, on Wednesday, where the Medical and Health personnel vaccinated a month old baby with PCV in the presence of the Chief Minister
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Increasing population hurdle in way of development, says UP CM
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 11 (ANI): Increasing population can be a hurdle in way of the development said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adtyanath on Sunday as he unveiled the state's Population Policy 2021-2030 on the occasion of World Population Day.
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Health Ministry launches India's first fully indigenous pneumococcal vacci
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 28 (ANI): Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Monday inaugurated India's first Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) in a bid to prevent about 67,800 child mortality under 5 years of age in India from pneumococcal diseases every year.
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COVID-19 to potentially increase child mortality in developing countries b
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 5 (ANI/Sputnik): The novel coronavirus pandemic will likely drive up child mortality rates in developing countries by slightly less than half of the current rate, World Bank President David Malpass said on Monday.
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Under-5, neonatal mortality rates drop substantially in India since 2000:
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): A latest study published by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on child mortality and child growth failure in India from 2000 to 2017 has revealed that the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) and neonatal mortality rate (NMR) have dropped substantially since
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World Breastfeeding Week: Breast milk is baby's first vaccine
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 4 (ANI): Infant mortality is one of India's most persistent health concerns. It is a well-established fact that breastfeeding reduces child mortality and has health benefits that extend well into adulthood.
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Gender bias leads to extra 239,000 girl deaths per year in India
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], May 15 (ANI): Gender discrimination results in "excess" deaths of girls under the age of five per year in India, according to a recent study.
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