UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday called for global efforts to improve the health of women and children. Speaking at a meeting of the Every Woman Every Child movement here, Ban stressed the importance of mobilizing and …
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Norwegian government have signed an agreement to continue an initiative to reduce maternal and infant mortality in 13 districts in four Indian states. Selected interventions …
The government will soon unveil a ‘new road map’ to address the issue of maternal and child health and seek better coordination among various ministries to reduce child mortality to 33 per thousand by 2017, the health …
India said that it will meet the millennium development goals by 2015. Various UN bodies had questioned the country’s ability to do so. In a letter to WHO representative to India Neta Menabde, the Health and Family Welfare …
According to the United Nations, a mother dies every ten minutes in India which means that along with malnutrition caused by poverty, India is likely to miss the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) related to maternal health as …
Though India's poverty rates fell from 51% to 37% between 1990 and 2008 it will still not reach the required Poverty Headcount Ratio (percentage of population below the national poverty line) of 23.9% by 2015 to achieve the …
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will later meet business and social leaders here to discuss ways and means to achieve the health-related UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), an official said. According to the …
