Pune A workshop on Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) was recently held at the regional centre of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Aundh. Conducted jointly with the UNICEF, the workshop had several modules that trained the participants on how to reduce infant mortality.

ACCORDING to paediatric specialists and nutritionists, around 240 children die every day in Bangladesh because of malnutrition and about 110 babies for not getting breast milk within one hour of birth. The figure has been estimated on the basis of some reports published by the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, UNICEF and Lancet.

Shivpuri: Kartar Adivasi, a one-year-old, weighed just 6.342 kg when he was admitted to the nutritional rehabilitation centre (NRC) at Narwar in Madhya Pradesh.

Born to Banwari and Binia of village Kiranpura (Barkhadi), the child was kept at the NRC for 14 days and then under followup care at his house, with the result that his weight increased to 9.3 kg by the time he was 15 months old.

- GPS to map sources in East Singhbhum under Unicef-funded pilot project

Jamshedpur, April 29: People of East Singhbhum will not only have access to clean drinking water soon, they will also get information about the quality of water via global positioning system (GPS).

The government has chosen to look at the problem from the wrong end of the looking glass, the survival end.

Under-nutrition, as a

The stench of a report released last week by the United Nations University's Institute for Water, Environment and Health in New York City brought the world's attention to the fact that India's vast open spaces are a latrine for half the population.

A new UN report says that a far greater number of Indians have access to cell phones than to toilet and basic sanitation.

There could not have been a better gift for 40,000 girls studying in 454 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBV) in Uttar Pradesh.

A Swedish company, Ikea