From a time when just a single service – immunization -- was being offered at community health events in villages a few years ago, to now rolling out around 6 services, including growth monitoring of ...

Amid rising concerns about unhealthy food habits and lifestyle diseases like diabetes and hypertension in India, public health experts have highlighted the role of government initiatives like POSHAN ...

India is unlikely to meet targets set under the ambitious Poshan Abhiyaan or National Nutrition Mission (NNM) for reduction in prevalence of stunting, underweight, low birth weight and anaemia in ...

Several organisations came together Wednesday and pledged to build a social movement with their staff and customers supporting the government's 'Poshan Abhiyaan' to make India healthy and free of ...

The trigger to go on an all-India mission was the disconcerting statistics revealed by the fourth National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4, 2015-16) on the above indicators. The fact sheets for 342 ...

Today’s children are the future of tomorrow, and so it’s important they have access to nutritious food right from birth through adolescence. However, India ranks 10th in terms of prevalence of ...

The UNICEF report highlights a sharp rise in obesity across all age groups in India, with prevalence among children, adolescents, and adults increasing rapidly. By 2030, over 27 million Indian ...

Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government has bagged first place in two categories of awards for Poshan Abhiyaan-2019 scheme. It’s a central government campaign, aimed at motivating people to join the ...

Punjab has been found lagging in the implementation of the Poshan Abhiyaan amid the Covid-19 pandemic, thus failing to achieve desirable results in the improvement of women and child development (WCD) ...

The ‘Poshan Abhiyaan’ was launched by the government with great fanfare on March 8, 2018, in Jhunjhunu, a small city in Rajasthan, where the Prime Minister made a call for waging a battle to end the ...

Know all about Thematic POSHAN Maah, its themes, and key activities. Since 2018, every year, the POSHAN Maah is celebrated during September under the POSHAN Abhiyaan. Read all you need to know. Women ...

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