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

India leads in reducing child deaths. A UN report highlights India's success in improving child survival. Significant drops in under-five a...

India achieved a historic milestone, completing 15 years without a wild poliovirus case. This success highlights strong political will and ...

When parents disagree over whether to vaccinate their child, the child may be delayed in getting vaccinated.

In the area of child nutrition, while there was a negligible decline in percentage of children under five who were wasted, or whose weight ...

While the influenza shot that contains two subtypes of influenza A and two lineages of influenza B is widely available in market, it is not...

The poor coverage of measles vaccination and later doses of basic vaccines like those for polio, diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus (DPT) ar...

The programme will focus on improving immunisation coverage in the districts and cities to ensure 90 per cent coverage for full immunisatio...

With the next general election due in 2019, early completion of the project aimed at reducing high child mortality rates in India will coun...

J P Nadda has written a letter to all states to support phase II which will be launched on October 7 this year in selected 297 medium focus...

Under 'Mission Indradhanush', 75.5 lakh children have received vaccination while a total of 19.7 lakh children have been fully vaccinated.

Party leader Jairam Ramesh told reporters that it revealed that even poorer states like Bihar have done better in some areas than Gujarat.

Nadda called upon the states to derive maximum benefits from the schemes and programmes of NDA govt and said that abundant funds are availa...

"The full immunisation coverage is approximately 65 per cent in 2014," Nadda said, adding that the government was setting targets for child...

Oram said the higher mortality appears to be due to low childhood immunisation amongst the STs, including particularly vulnerable tribal gr...

Ghulam Nabi Azad said the lessons learnt from success of polio campaign could help eliminate measles-related child deaths and neonatal teta...

Despite over 8% GDP growth for past four years, infant mortality rate dropped marginally from 58 in 2004 to 54 in 2008.