The report by UN agencies suggested more investment is needed to specifically mitigate risks and to increase focus on women and babies in policies and programmes...
Climate science is increasingly exposing the direct and indirect effects of climate change on pregnant women, stillbirths and preterm birth, the report 'Born Too Soon: Decade...
India has taken important steps to improve the quality of care during labour and childbirth, leading to reductions in maternal deaths, said Dr Anshu Banerjee, Director,...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said that COVID-19, rising poverty, and worsening humanitarian crises intensified the pressure on the overstretched maternity and newborn health services which...
According to UNICEF official, India has been one of the exemplar countries with a rapid rise in institutional deliveries, rapid scale-up of newborn care units and...
Health experts from around the globe called for renewed action to meet the targets of reducing maternal, newborn mortality and stillbirth by 2030 at a conference...
The UN report stated that preterm birth rates have not changed in any region worldwide in the past decade (2010–2020), with 152 million babies ‘born too...
World Health Day 2023: Union Minister of Women and Child Development, Smriti Irani on her government's efforts to address the challenge of nutrition and improve maternal...
There has been rapid improvement in the health services in UP in the last six years, as a result of which the state's district hospitals are...
There has been a steady rise in the immunisation coverage in the northeastern states over the year but due to the pandemic, there are cases of...
According to the World Health Organization, 39 million children were overweight or obese in 2020, leading to increased risks of heart disease, diabetes, cancers, and early...
Actor Dia Mirza on the need to invest in our environment and the crucial link between the health of the planet and health of human beings,...