Child Malnutrition
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India witnessed four-fold increase in child rapes between 1994 and 2016, claims report
•Titled 'Child Rights in India - An Unfinished Agenda', the report talks about a number of issues including, malnutrition, crime against children and education.
Indian babies being born heavier than ever; a sign of improving healthcare, more awareness among mothers
Indiaspend •Indian babies are being born heavier than ever, a sign of better-educated, richer and more aware mothers and better healthcare.
Bill Gates meets Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, agrees to help state tackle encephalitis, child malnutrition
Fp Staff •A delegation led by Microsoft and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-founder Bill Gates called upon Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adiyanath at Shastri Bhavan, Lucknow to discuss numerous welfare initiatives
UPA-nomics: High growth plus high inflation equals worse child malnutrition
Jagannathan •The UPA's main boast has been that it provided high growth and a reduction in poverty. But the high inflation it left behind also increased child malnutrition. The moral: you can't ignore inflation when it comes to addressing the needs of poor
One out of every eight people in the world is malnourished: UN
Fp Archives •One in eight people around the world is chronically undernourished, the United Nations' food agencies said on Tuesday, warning world leaders that some regions would fail in halving the number of hungry by 2015.
Fifty percent of Jharkhand kids suffer from poor eyesight
Fp Archives •More than 54 percent of the around 52 lakh children in Jharkhand suffer from malnourishment and a large number of them have eye-related ailments like cataract, according to data made available by the state government.
Two out of three people in Haiti don't get food
Fp Archives •The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast.
The child malnutrition hoax: Why jholawallas are wrong
Jagannathan •Due to a fundamental error in the way malnutrition is measured by WHO, India's child malnutrition levels appear worse than sub-Saharan Africa. It is a myth.