The National Nutrition Mission, with all its hype, is confined very much to fixing targets, and its focus does not seem to consist in addressing the causes for the high prevalence of malnutrition,

Dar es Salaam — A new report has revealed how children as young as seven years of age are lured into small-scale mining activities in the country.

The Iksha Foundation, a Bengaluru-based NGO supporting children with eye cancer, has stepped up programmes to spread awareness about retinoblastoma and ensure that the disease is detected in potent

With the misinformation campaign affecting the ambitious Measles-Rubella vaccination programme, the Punjab Government on Thursday took the help of the experts from the World Health Organization (WH

Doctors emphasise need for protocol for newborn intensive care

These immunisation programmes have various degrees of community engagement.

Though the government is spending a fortune on propagating the use of Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) for children suffering from diarrhoea, doctors at government dispensaries in Punjab and Haryana ar

About 7,000 people, mostly women and children, are adversely affected due to lead poison associated with mining activities in gold bearing zone of Nigeria.

To improve nutritional status of 10 cr persons across 315 districts

When Julius Peter was finally freed after seven years held hostage by Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army, he and his family hoped their lives would finally return to normal.