India's infant mortality rate has significantly dropped to 24 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024. This progress is largely due to a surge...

Caesarean sections are now the norm in Indian private hospitals, accounting for over half of all births. Eastern and southern states show p...

In a significant achievement towards building a digitally empowered healthcare ecosystem, the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), imple...

India's maternal health has seen a remarkable transformation, with maternal deaths having fallen significantly, a global achievement. This ...

India is a leader in delivering healthcare interventions with fairness. Union Health Minister JP Nadda highlighted this at the World Health...

A woman delivered her baby in a government hospital park in Faridabad after the main gate was found locked and no staff responded to pleas ...

India's PC-PNDT Act, enacted to curb female foeticide, has had a modest impact on sex ratios over 30 years. While the law's intent is valid...

India has achieved a remarkable reduction in maternal deaths, dropping from 508 to 116 per lakh livebirths since 1990. This progress exceed...

According to World Health Organization, "Maternal death is the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnanc...

Arunachal Pradesh fares the worst of all states and Maharashtra the best, says the study published in the journal PLOS Global Public Health...

The ratio has declined from 167 in 2011-2013 to 130 in 2014-2016 and to 122 in 2015-17, registering a 6.15 per cent reduction since the las...

Indian MMR is declining, slowly but steadily. The maternal mortality rate is the annual number of female deaths per 100,000 live births fro...

Reducing infant and maternal mortality rate in India will not be possible if men do not change their mindset and are not involved in the em...

India also had the highest number of under-five deaths in the world in 2012, with 1.4 million children dying before reaching their fifth bi...

India is targeting to cut maternal mortality ratio to 150 per 1,00,000 live births by 2015, Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi ...

The services will be provided in the fields of basic healthcare, immunisation, maternal and child health services and health education.

In 2005, PRATHAM shocked the nation’s conscience by documenting that about 52% of the country’s children could not read, and about 65% cann...