The efforts made to eliminate EMTCT were focused on strengthening prevention and treatment services in primary healthcare, maternal and child health, and supporting the involvement of women in planning and service delivery.
At a briefing, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell told UNSC that the true cost of this latest war in Palestine and Israel will be 'measured in children's lives'.
Drop in ratio — from 556/lakh live births in 1990 to 97 in 2020 — is a result of govt efforts to increase no. of institutional births & greater focus on quality of healthcare for mothers.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the numbers were 'encouraging', but there were concerns the most vulnerable were being left behind.
The data was a 'worrying warning signal' of rising vaccine hesitancy amid misinformation, dwindling trust in governments and political polarisation, UNICEF said.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
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