Vidya Krishnan, Sreenivas Janyala & Gopu Mohan: UNTIL a few months back, Avinashilingam University for Women in Coimbatore was known for little except the courses it offered. Suddenly, the university in Tamil Nadu finds itself at the peak of a health drink advertisement campaign, based on a research it conducted.

Dr Muhammad Rafiq Program Specialist, Unicef has said that Pakistan was still on the top of the list of polio endemic countries and there was need of collective efforts and political commitment to halt circulation of poliovirus in the society. He was addressing inaugural ceremony of March 2009 anti-polio round in Peshawar.

Observing that the preservation of ecology is a fundamental challenge, Governor NN Vohra has said Shri Amarnath Shrine Board will take a firm initiative in funding eco-awareness-cum-conservation campaigns and supplementing the afforestation programmes in selected areas.

Kidney diseases among the people under 15 are on the rise and they now constitute half of the total renal patients in the country, renal specialists said on Wednesday.
The nephrologists said an estimated 49 lakh adolescents and children suffer from different kidney aliments and 50 thousand of them die each year due to renal failure. Ninety per cent of these patients die without treatment.

UNICEF has brought 60 MT of supplementary food (Unimix) to Jaffna, to be distributed to 4,500 moderately malnourished children (including those in the new IDP camps) in the Jaffna District over the next six months, the joint humanitarian update released by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.

The provincial health department has launched a new

The provincial health department has launched a new

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The Comptroller and Auditor General in its latest report has said that for the last three years the Jammu & Kashmir Government has been feeding school children lesser quantity of cooked meal thereby defeating the objective of the mid-day meal scheme.

A Project that originated at a boutique ad agency to help Unicef deliver clean drinking water to children in developing countries is expanding in its third year as more firms join to support the cause.