Global population set to touch 9.7 billion in 2050: UN
India will be the most populous country in the world by 2022
WHO TB report: India tops list of nations with high disease burden
India and China alone account for 35 per cent of tuberculosis cases reported in 2013
Health hurts
Budgetary support offers little hope of meeting targets
'Like MDGs, India may fail to achieve SDG targets on malnutrition'
Vietnam targets poverty with tourism
An ILO project generates job opportunities for local people in remote villages
UNDP administrator pushes for forest protection for sustainable development at Davos
‘Commodity production without deforestation a win-win situation’
World risks spending $250 billion on simply monitoring UN development goals: report
The number should be reduced from the current 169 targets
UN begins task of drafting declaration on sustainable development agenda
Delegates express concern over achieving equitable development
An open problem
Ghana's failure to fight open defecation is an ominous sign for Africa
Africa fights hunger with football, Vietnam aims at ‘zero hunger’ by 2025
Millions of people in Asia and Africa are undernourished and malnourished
New UN report gives recommendations to improve human development in Asia-Pacific
Proposes green growth approach, among others
Measles catch-up campaign falls short of expectation
Health ministry officials say impact of the campaign will show results later
Postnatal care critical to reducing maternal and infant mortality
Many women in low- and middle-income countries do not use postnatal care, says study
Environmental degradation draining Pakistan’s economy: survey
Increasing urbanisation is causing air, water pollution
UN reports fall in development assistance from donor countries
Decline in aid will affect efforts to reach Millennium Development Goals by 2015
'South Asia, Africa show poor progress towards MDGs'
India fares worse than Bangladesh and Nepal, says report
Experts call for holistic approach to reproductive healthcare
Urge governments to give women free healthcare to reduce maternal mortality
Health millennium goals neglected in Asia-Pacific region: UN report
3 million children below five died in 2010 alone
Over 300 million Indians still defecate in the open: WHO-UNICEF report
Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan do much better in improving access to sanitation
Call to make healthy choices available and affordable
Health experts lash out at food industry for putting public health at risk
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'Lifestyle' diseases spur UN to act
Why the world should plan for historic African population boom
The Western world witnessed a baby boom post World War II. Now Africa, the world's second most populous continent, is set for a demographic boom …
Mid-day meal has failed to attract children to government schools, says CAG audit
The latest report says that in most of the states children are not getting the prescribed level of nutrition through the food supplied under the …
'Politics, science and civil society will determine success of SDGs'
Paul V Gandingen, director at Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) and a UNESCO chair, talks about how countries can achieve …