World Breastfeeding Week: Here’s how to take care of yourself post-pregnancy

As a new mother, you’ve endured the long wait, and possibly the discomfort of pregnancy. Soon after delivery though, parenting responsibilities set in, as does the ro...

Every Newborn Action Plan Progress Report, Strategies Toward Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality launch at 68th World Health Assembly

Countries taking bold steps to end preventable newborn deaths within a generation; framework for ending maternal mortality released GENEVA, Switzerland, 19 May 2015 —...

How Will The Global Financing Facility Deliver For Sexual And Reproductive Health And Rights?

Sexual and reproductive health must be at the forefront of the health agenda. Despite family planning being the most cost-effective public health and development interventi...

India bets on mobiles in battle on maternal, child deaths

NEW DELHI, March 17 (Reuters) - India is betting on cheap mobile phones to cut some of the world's highest rates of maternal and child deaths, as it rolls out a campaign of...

14th World Congress on Public Health held in Kolkata

Kolkata recently hosted the 14th World Congress on Public Health (WCPH) at the city’s Science City auditorium. Kolkata last hosted the Congress in 1981.

The C...

When women thrive, the world thrives

This week India’s leadership will play a key role in defining the security of the world’s fundamental economic and social resource in the 21st century: Its demo...

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SNEHA INVITES YOU TO A FESTIVAL OF ART, HEALTH AND RECYCLING

A Mumbai-based non-profit organisation, SNEHA targets four large public health areas: ...

A THIRD GENDER TALE

The daily prime time reality based crime show; Code Red hosted by Sakshi Tanwar narrated a most disturbing story last week. It was ?child abduc...

Sanitation most relevant for India’s health: Gates

Sanitation is the most relevant aspect of improving India’s reproductive, maternal and newborn health, according to philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates. In their a...