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Rahul Kumar Dwivedi, CNS Correspondent, India To improve coordination and responses on youths Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), a state level inter-sectoral coordination meet is convened today under the auspices of Citizen News Service (CNS) in collaboration with Youth Champion Initiative (YCI) and FPA India. Around 50 representatives from government agencies (National Heath Mission, SIFPSA, Health & Family Welfare, Education) and other sectors such as (Youth, Women, PLHIV, Medical Professionals, NGOs, and Media), met to discuss integrated responses for ensuring sexual and reproductive health and rights for the young people.  WHO Director-General’s Awardee and 2012 National President of Association of Surgeons of India Professor (Dr) Rama Kant moderated the panel discussion. Dr Swapna Das, General Manager (Adolescent and Health) at NHM UP Government, Dr Anil Mishra, General Manager (Training) NHM; Dr Aruna Narain, Senior Advisor, RMNCH+A, State Innovations in Fa...

Citizen News Service - CNS Despite being preventable and treatable, it is unacceptable that Pneumonia continues to be a leading infectious killer for children under five years globally. Dr Ajay Mishra, Senior Director and Head of Paediatrics, Nelson Hospital in Lucknow, said in a webinar (recording, podcast) that "while pneumonia in children is preventable and treatable, it still remains the number one killer of children below the age of 5 years, killing 760,000 children aged 1-59 months in 2015. With 35 million pneumonia episodes per year India tops the 15 high pneumonia burden countries. More than 90% of all pneumonia deaths occur in developing countries out of which 50% occur in India." Dr Ajay Mishra added: "Risk factors for childhood pneumonia include poor immunisation coverage; low birth weight, malnutrition, not exclusively breast feeding the infant for first 6 months; Vitamin A and zinc deficiency; indoor air pollution (from tobacco smoke for example), and poor ...