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Country Representative, UNICEF India, Gianni Murzi (left), M.K. Bhan, AIIMS (second from left), and Ministry of Women and Child Development Joint Secretary Loveleen Kacker (second from right) releasing the “State of World’s Children 2008: Child Survival” at a conference in New Delhi on Tuesday.
NEW DELHI Of the 9.7 million children dying globally before they reach the age of five, India accounts for 2.1 million, though the mortality has declined by 34 per cent between 1990 and 2006.
India still carries a disproportionate amount of the burden as it accounts for 21 per cent of the under-five children dying in the world.
According to the State of the World’s Children 2008 report on Child Survival, released by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) here on Tuesday, urgent action was needed to tackle the underlying causes of deaths of children in the country by increasing investment in child survival and development programmes...Read...
NEW DELHI Of the 9.7 million children dying globally before they reach the age of five, India accounts for 2.1 million, though the mortality has declined by 34 per cent between 1990 and 2006.
India still carries a disproportionate amount of the burden as it accounts for 21 per cent of the under-five children dying in the world.
According to the State of the World’s Children 2008 report on Child Survival, released by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) here on Tuesday, urgent action was needed to tackle the underlying causes of deaths of children in the country by increasing investment in child survival and development programmes...Read...