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Stunting remains a significant public health challenge in Africa, with far-reaching implications for child health, development, and future prospects

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With India’s assumption as the voice of the Global South, its progress in the maternal mortality ratio and maternal and child health can serve as a

India is prioritising access to affordable, high-quality healthcare services through recent government policies, reflecting a strong commitment to hea

अंतरिम अर्थसंकल्पात, नागरिकांना दर्जेदार आरोग्य सेवा उ�

In the Interim Budget, the government seems to be focusing on important pillars of its Universal Health Coverage plans, namely healthcare infrastructu

Women’s participation in spaces of power is the need of the hour to solve the current climate crisis

The integration of AI with the already existing healthcare systems could help bring about a substantial difference in maternal and child health in Ind

The pandemic will lead to pushing 96 million more people into extreme poverty, with 47 million being women and girls.

Successful stories of change across India suggest investment in girls and women and heightened delivery of health and nutrition interventions in bring

Nagaland needs a sociopolitical vision on health governance.

Immunisation coverage under national programmes is an important indicator to track advancement towards child health-related SDGs.

Goals 4 and 5 of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) focused a great deal on maternal and child health, which has now been carried forward to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While India made significant strides in reducing maternal and child mortality, the country did not succeed in achieving its health goals. This paper makes an assessment of the current state of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child health (RMNC

India has recorded notable progress in maternal and child health in the recent years. The state of Madhya Pradesh (MP), however, has performed sub-optimally compared to most states and union territories (UTs) of India. MP’s annual reduction in maternal mortality rate (MMR), for example, is at 5.8 percent, compared to the national average of 7.5 percent; the yearly drop in neonatal mortality rate (NMR) is at 0.6 percent, far below the national a

India and the United States (US) have been cooperating in the health sector since the late 1960s. The cooperation has intensified in the past decade, riding on institutional structures established following the launch of the US-India Health Initiative in 2010. It has seen further expansion since the COVID-19 pandemic, and today covers a wide range of areas including disease prevention and combating infectious diseases, maternal and child

India's progress in reducing the prevalent stunting rate in under-five children has been slow, and it must work hard to double the current annual rate of decline if it hopes to meet its sustainable development goals. Among others, this target requires ninety-percent coverage of women and children in the first one thousand days of life with evidence-based Essential Nutrition Interventions (ENIs) and maternal-child health services. Such coverage of

In December 2020, the government released the results of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 5 for 2019-20, covering 22 states and Union Territories (UTs). Contrary to expectations, NFHS5 found an increase in the percentage of stunted children in 13 states and UTs, compared to the results of NFHS4. This paper analyses such reversal of the three-decadal progress that India had previously made in reducing stunting in children. It analy

Human capital is the wealth of nations and is dependent on health, nutrition, skills and knowledge of people. To produce and maintain a healthy, highly skilled workforce, India must make cost-effective investments to improve child health and nutrition