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This note examines recent trends in infant mortality in India, based on summary reports from the Sample Registration System. We find evidence of slowdown, pauses, and reversals in infant mortality decline in large parts of India in 2017 and 2018. In urban areas, the infant mortality rate stagnated at 23 deaths per 1,000 births between 2016 and 2018. Worse, overall infant mortality increased in the poorer states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh. One possible interpre...

New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): The Supreme Court has allowed a plea to make the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) a party in connection with a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and lawyer, Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, who has sought certain directions, including two-child norm policy, to control the country's growing population.

Vaccines bring us closer Dr Madhulika Jonathan (The writer is Chief of Field Office for UNICEF, Assam. She can be contacted at pmalhotra@unicef.org) "Get the COVID-19 vaccine so that you can be safe to ensure your children receive routine immunization. It will shield them against preventable diseases." – This World Immunization Week, I urge all parents to act, to protect. Vaccines are among the greatest advances of modern medicine, saving millions of lives worldwide. Getting the COVID-19 v...

The decision not to have a kid is personal⁠ — but the social pressure against the choice is all-pervasive Business Insider India 28-02-2021 Kavita Majumdar © Pixabay The decision not to have a kid is personal⁠ — but the social pressure against the choice is all-pervasive There are a huge number of young couples choosing not to procreate for a variety of reasons ⁠— sometimes at the cost of finding themselves at the receiving end of concern and/or reprimand. Resea...

A migrant worker in Ahmedabad on May 19. | Amit Dave/Reuters In 1998, APJ Abdul Kalam, a scientist and administrator associated with India’s missile programme as well as the Pokhran-II nuclear tests, co-authored a book titled India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium. It had a simple message: India would be a superpower within the next two decades. As predictions go, this was extremely bold. In 1998, India was a poor country, unable to reach even average global standards...

edia coverage of the latest National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5) results from 2019 have broadly focused on the under-performance in nutrition, at the cost of examining disaggregated trends in child mortality. This article tries to examine new study findings of a stagnation in child mortality rates in India’s urban areas based on the Sample Registration System (SRS) data by Jean Dreze and colleagues in light of new NFHS-5 data from 17 states. The 2020 study had explored data from 20 bigger...

Centre said that it is against forced family planning. (Representational) New Delhi: The Centre has told the Supreme Court that India is unequivocally against forcing family planning on its people and any coercion to have a certain number of children is counter-productive and leads to demographic distortions. In an affidavit filed in the top court, the health ministry told the top court that the family welfare programme in the country is voluntary in nature, which enables couples to decide the...

Against involuntary methods of family planning, Centre tells SC ANI | Updated: Dec 12, 2020 18:52 IST New Delhi [India], December 12 (ANI): The Central government has submitted before the Supreme Court that it is against the involuntary methods of family planning for population control and added that Family Welfare Programme in India is voluntary in nature. The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in its affidavit filed on December 7, said the Famil...