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The Covid 19 pandemic is the biggest advocate for the need to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) as soon as possible.
Access to Respectful Maternity care is also one such resource currently but through a conscious effort of policy makers and medical professionals this resource could be available to everyone.
After all, the targets in SDG3 would carry greater weight, if patients didn’t have to rely on doctors or healthcare providers who are regulated by informal relationships guided by friendship or family or second opinions. The need for better health care compliance is a pressing and growing need.
There are 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 indicators to measure them. For each goal, these indicators will track achievements and shortcomings. So, it comes without saying: the accuracy of these indicators is of utmost importance in realising the SDGs.
Malnourishment, particularly severe malnourishment, increases the risk of death from common childhood diseases such as diarrhea (WHO). In many poor countries malnourishment is chronic and generational. Rates of stunting which measures the weight of the child for its age are extremely high and in many cases so are rates...
‘An extremely poor nomadic tribe which wanders across the states of central India’ is how one would define the Sehariya tribe. As all Indian castes and tribes, Sehariya tribe has a mythical origin: they are companions of tigers. An allusion to their bravery
In the past few weeks, during and after the UN general assembly, there has been so much hype about the Sustainable Development Goals inside and outside the development industry
How do policy makers choose one way or another in a scenario of unlimited needs and meagre resources? Follow the policy that provides the maximum benefit for the entire population
