Health Min to strengthen maternal & child tracking systems

In a bid to improve child sex ratio by providing better antenatal and pre-natal care to women in the country, the Health Ministry is planning to strengthen its Maternal and...

Jack Johnson's All At Once Sustainability Award Winners

Jack Johnson recently announced the 2014 All At Once Sustainability Award Winners. Winners were chosen based on excellent existing greening practices as well as improvement...

National Seminar on Tribal Health Issues

More than a decade of research has shown that small and affordable measures can significantly reduce the health risks that women face when they become pregnant. Most matern...

Improving child and maternal health care in rural areas

Taking a leaf out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi?? pioneering Digital India campaign, HLFPPT has launched an innovative e-ASHA training programme in the remote Suvali bloc...

Lexicon of democratic literacy

The introduction of educational qualifications as eligibility criteria for contesting panchayat elections has shocked and angered rural Rajasthan, including supporters of t...

Vaccination is the best protection against whooping cough

The CDC notes whooping cough most commonly affects infants and young children. It can be fatal especially for those under the age of one. Babies are more at risk because th...

Global Warming:The top 5 climate science and policy developments to watch in 2015

2014 was widely seen as a breakthrough year when decision-makers finally turned the corner in the effort to avert runaway climate change. Agreements on climate change?to pa...

Why is the World aiming for Sustainability?

To decide the narrative for this article has been quite a task. There are so many approaches to address the issue at hand, I could have been the cynic and looked back on al...

Looking Back With Concern- Health 2014

A Snapshot of Global Health- 2014

• Between 2000 and 2012, measles deaths worldwide have been cut by almost 80% ??from 56...
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