The first drug to treat infants sick with malaria is approved by Swiss authoritySwissmedic has approved Coartem Baby, a malaria medicine specifically formulated for infants weighing 2 to 5 kilograms. This marks the firs...
09 Jul, 2025, 06.43 AM IST
World Health Day 2025: India marks progress in maternal and child health with key initiativesOn World Health Day 2025, India highlights substantial progress in maternal and child health through initiatives like Ayushman Bharat and t...
06 Apr, 2025, 08.39 PM IST
India on track to meet SDG health targets well ahead of 2030: GovtThe Union Cabinet reviewed NHM's progress, noting significant advancements in maternal and child health, disease elimination, and healthcar...
22 Jan, 2025, 06.46 PM IST
India's child mortality rate declined between 1990 and 2019: UNThe 'Levels & Trends in Child Mortality' Report 2020 said that the number of global under-five deaths dropped to its lowest point on record...
09 Sep, 2020, 10.13 AM IST
India on track to achieve health related MDGs: J P NaddaIndia is on track to achieve the three health sector related Millennium Development Goals adopted by the UN in 2000, Union Health and Famil...
12 Feb, 2016, 06.46 PM IST
India trails on two targets under Millennium Development GoalsMDGs are international development goals that United Nations member states and numerous international organisations, including India, have ...
02 Dec, 2015, 03.41 PM IST
India may battle malaria on its own as international agencies plan to divert financesIndia may have to ramp up its funding to eliminate malaria as several international agencies are expected to divert finances to more demand...
30 Sep, 2015, 12.32 PM IST
India needs to improve healthcare as part of global MDGs: WHOIndia and many other southeast Asian countries need to improve their record on public health care, the WHO said today as it warned that the...
13 May, 2015, 06.28 PM IST
India has achieved 5 of 12 targets under MDGs: GovernmentIndia has already achieved 5 of the 12 target under UN's Millennium Development Goals and is close to achieving four more by 2015, the Parl...
10 Dec, 2014, 05.36 PM IST
Poverty, child, maternal deaths high in India: UN reportIndia 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...
08 Jul, 2014, 01.40 PM IST
India will not be able to achieve crucial MDG targets: ReportIndia's poverty ratio is likely to be 26.7 per cent by 2015 while child mortality ratio is seen at 52 per thousand live births.
01 Jan, 2013, 08.02 PM IST
- Ranbaxy Daiichi Sankyo to spend Rs 10 crore on mobile healthcare clinics over next 5 years
The services will be provided in the fields of basic healthcare, immunisation, maternal and child health services and health education.
31 Aug, 2011, 01.28 PM IST
- India's development report card shows fuzzy priorities
Too little allocated for poverty eradication, too little spent, lag in targets.
19 Sep, 2010, 06.02 AM IST
- Time to finance a new global health fund
The donors should raise their contribution four-fold to scale up control of AIDS, TB and malaria, and boost primary health systems.
22 Mar, 2010, 04.23 AM IST
- ‘Climate change will hit 175m kids every year’
A new report suggests that 175 million children will be affected every year by frequent natural disasters caused due to climate change.
07 Dec, 2009, 10.44 AM IST
- 'South Asia nations will fall short of MDGs'
Most south Asian nations will fall short on the MDGs, a set of eight globally agreed development goal due to be achieved by 2015, a study b...
09 Apr, 2008, 04.06 PM IST
- Most south Asia nations will fall short of MDG:IMF-WB
Most south Asian nations will fall short on the Millenium Development Goals, a set of eight globally agreed development goal due to be achi...
09 Apr, 2008, 09.57 AM IST