India has made remarkable strides in maternal and child health between 2014 and 2021, with significant declines in MMR, IMR, NMR, and U5MR....

GHI remains a misleading hunger index as its methodology ignores genetic factors for which norms on stunting and wasting may not be applica...

The 'Levels & Trends in Child Mortality' Report 2020 said that the number of global under-five deaths dropped to its lowest point on record...

However, among India's states, great disparities remained: The highest mortality rate in Assam was more than seven times that in Goa.

India ranked below Sri Lanka (127), Bangladesh (54), Nepal (50) and Bhutan (60) but was above Pakistan, which was ranked among the lowest i...

According to the ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW), about 26 million babies are born in India annually, of which 730,000 die wi...

In 2014, India averted 1.26 lakh more deaths among children under-five years of age, according to data which are part of sample registratio...

He said the government has initiated an SMS based electronic vaccine intelligence network (e-VIN) to enable real time monitoring of vaccine...

The alliance has structured its model in consultation with the National Health Mission and will working in synergy with the governments at ...

The consensus over the new targets was achieved within the government in a recent meeting of the health ministry and other concerned depart...

PM said India has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus much before the target date set for December this year and described the achieve...

Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Ram Niwas, presided over a 2-day state level workshop here to prepare Newborn Action Plan (HNAP).

Between 1990 and 2013, under-five mortality declined by 49%, falling from an estimated rate of 90 deaths per 1,000 live births.

"At this current rate of decline it seems it will be difficult for India to reach the target of less than 39 per 1,000 live births by the e...

Stressing upon cleanliness and hygiene, he said preventive care was the most important component of overall healthcare and also inexpensive.

But in a reverse brain drain, 30 nurses from private hospitals in Madhya Pradesh quit last year to work in government-run sick and newborn ...

More than one in five children who die within four weeks of birth is an Indian despite improvements in child mortality rates worldwide, the...