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India Has 31% Of The World's Poor Kids

About 31% of the world’s “multidimensionally poor” children live in India, according to a new report by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiativ...

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Health

Diarrhoea Kills Half A Million Children Globally, Shows Lancet Study

Immediate and sustained action urged as diarrhoea remains among leading causes of child mortality despite improved access to clean water and sanitation Half a million child...

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Human Rights

Risking Lives Of Mothers & Children': India Condemned For Cuts To Benefits

Campaigners warn of damaging effect of scaling back a maternal payment scheme introduced to stem high death rates among infants and mothers Campaigners have warned that the...

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Health

More Than A Fifth Of The World’s Child Diarrhoeal Deaths Occur In India

India continues to contribute the most child deaths due to diarrhoeal disease globally--over 1 lakh child deaths in 2015 alone--a new report in the medical journal Lancet h...

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Health

India's Health Budget Among The Smallest Globally; Maternal Mortality Rate One Of The Highest In South Asia: WHO

India grapples with one of the highest Maternal Mortality Rates (MMR) in South East Asia, has one of the highest incidences of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) but has one...

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Health

India Ranks Below Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal in Healthcare Index

India's health care index has gone up in last 25 years from 30.7 to 44.8 but numbers are much lesser than Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal.A report published on Thur...

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Human Rights

Beautiful Resistance: Why Protest In All Art Matters

Recently I was at a dinner party of my peers, which is to say: Not Young People. (Thus far, most Generation Xers refuse to refer to themselves as middle-aged, though we sur...

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Environment

Why Living Around Nature Can Make You Live Longer

Living closer to nature is better for your health, new research suggests — and may even extend your life. A study just published in the journal Environmental Health P...

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Health

Poor Access To Support Systems Causes High Mortality Among Women With Burn Injuries

In 1998, India was the only country in the world where fire was among the 15 leading causes of death. Even almost two decades later, incidents of burn-related injuries rema...

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Health

Health Policy Focuses On Expanding Access, Quality: Secy

Expanding access of medical facilities, reducing treatment costs and improving quality are the three major objectives of the recently-released National Health Policy, a top...

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