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Public Health: Achievements in MDGs and Way Forward to SDGs
The deadline to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs) expired in 2015. Out of the total 10 health targets, India was able to achieve or get close to achieve only four targets. As per WHO’s annual World Health Statistics for ..
Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 for the year 2030. They are part of Resolution 70/1 of the United Nations General Assembly, the 2030 Agenda. ..
UN adopts agreement on Sustainable Development Goals
United Nations on 25 September 2015 unanimously adopted an ambitious agreement on the outcome document New Sustainable Development Agenda for the next 15 years i.e. till 2030. The document in this regard was adopted in 70th session of United Nations ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2015
193 UN members reach agreement on New Sustainable Development Agenda
United Nations 193 member states have reached an agreement on the outcome document New Sustainable Development Agenda for the next 15 years i.e. till 2030. The new agenda draft document called “Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” was ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2015
Government to launch Universal Health Assurance Mission
Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan has announced that the government will introduce a universal health insurance programme under UHAM (Universal Health Assurance Mission). The programme will seek to provide all people access to tertiary medical services. In a country where ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2014
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
China has over 100 million BPL people
While addressing the conference at Rio de Janeiro, the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao held that China still has more than 100 million people living Below the Poverty Line (BPL) and stressed that China continued as a developing nation, despite it ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2012