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NFHS Survey: Fertility rate dips to 2.0; more than half women, children anaemic in 14 states, UTs

The Centre has released the factsheets of key indicators on population, reproductive and child health, family welfare, nutrition and others for India as well as 14 states and UTs under phase two, of the 2019-21 NFHS-5

India must strengthen ICDS, midday meals to tackle paradox of falling nutrition outcomes amid rising GDP

Parameters such as the proportion of children who are underweight or under 5 mortality rate cast a gloomy picture for India

First phase of National Family Health Survey-5 shows startling trends in out-of-pocket health expenses

The time has come for India to legislate a ‘Right to Health’ ensure everyone can access healthcare without risking falling prey to poverty.

India's sex ratio has widened in 8 states: National Family Health Survey also reports high level gender-based violence

NFHS is the government’s own data and if the figures are so high pre-pandemic, one shudders to think what it will be like post-pandemic, said Sohini Bhattacharya of Breakthrough India, a women’s rights organisation

Infant mortality improves in India but malnutrition gets worse, NFHS survey finds

Health minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday released the fifth National Family Health Survey (NFHS) which contains detailed information on population, health, and nutrition for India and its states and Union territories

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.

Hypertension Day 2019: This 'silent killer' that ails many and goes unnoticed, is easy to control

In India, hypertension has led to a total of 1.63 million deaths in 2016 and needs to find a way to overcome it.

India can't achieve 8% annual GDP growth without reducing income and gender inequality and improving healthcare

India is one of the most unequal countries in the world, with the top 10 percent controlling 55 percent of the total wealth against 31 percent in 1980, according to the 2018 World Inequality report.

Family planning in India: Women brave health risks to opt for sterilisation, as men shrug off responsibility

One in three married Indian women in the 15-49 age group resorts to sterilisation, often in areas where facilities are scarce and risk to their health high.

Wealth, mother’s education and birth order may be behind low vaccination rates in India, reveals study

Its aim was to examine how socioeconomic, demographic and geographic factors affect a child’s likelihood of being vaccinated.