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  Swachh Bharat Mission's toilets helped avert 70,000 infant deaths per year: Study

  India | September 05, 2024 22:50 IST

  As per researchers, the findings fall in line with evidence from global and South Asian contexts, with multiple studies, indicating that improved sanitation can potentially cut child mortality rates by 5-30 per cent.

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  India has the highest number of deaths among children below 5: UN report

  World | September 17, 2014 6:38 IST

  United Nations: India's child mortality rate has dropped by more than half since 1990 but it still recorded the world's highest number of deaths among children below age five in 2013, a United Nations report

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  Iron, folic acid tablets to be given to 13 crore girls every week

  India | January 29, 2013 21:45 IST

  New Delhi,Jan 29: In an effort to prevent anaemia, the government will soon launch an ambitious programme to provide Iron Folic Acid (IFA) tablets every week to 13 crore adolescent girls in the age group