“An awareness of the need for coexistence amidst diversity is the only way to alleviate

the suffering of others”

- Amma.

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The International Year of Water Co-operation recognizes that ‘water is critical for sustainable development, including environmental integrity and the eradication of poverty and hunger, and is indispensable for human health and well-being.’

World Water Day

celebrations on March

22 and World Water

Week in August will be

devoted to the theme

of water co-operation

around the world.

• UN states that 2013 will

focus on ‘lessons that can

be learned from successful

water co-operation

initiatives. It will also

emphasize key water

management issues such as

water education; water

diplomacy; sharing of water

resources across national

and community borders;

and national and

international legal

frameworks on the use, and

sharing of water

The International Year of

Quinoa (IYQ) aims to

focus world attention

on the ‘nutritional,

economic,

environmental and

cultural value of

quinoa,’ a seed

originally cultivated for

food in the Andes,

primarily in Peru,

Bolivia, and Ecuador.

• Quinoa is gluten free and

contains high-quality

protein, complete with all

essential amino acids. The

crop appears to adapt to

different ecologies, making

it easy to grow in a variety

of climates and soils.

According to the Food and

Agriculture Organization of

the UN, ‘Quinoa has a

remarkable adaptability to

different agro-ecological

region.

Ban Ki-moon is the 8 th and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, after succeeding Kofi Annan in 2007. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations.

Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, is the Director-General of the World Health Organization.

Ghulam Nabi Azad is the current Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare.

Montek Singh Ahluwalia is an Indian economist and civil servant. He is currently the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Republic of India

KERALA MINISTER Health, Family Welfare, Medical Education, Medical University, Indigenous Medicines, Drugs Control, Homoeopathy, Naturopathy, Devaswoms

Danica May Camacho, born at two minutes to midnight in Manila, the Philippine.

• India welcomed the birth of baby Nargis as the "symbolic" seven billionth baby.

Birth rate:20.22 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)Death rate:7.4 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)Life expectancy:68.89 years est.)–male:67.46 years (2009 est.)–female:72.61 years (2009 est.)Fertility rate:2.5 children born/woman (SRS 2010)

Population:1,220,800,359 (2013 est.)

Total population of Kerala as per 2011 census

33,406,061

male : 16,027,412

Female: 17,378,649 Literacy rate in Kerala has seen upward trend

and is 94.00 percent as per 2011 population census.

male literacy stands at 96.11 percent

female literacy is at 100.76 percent

UNDER FIVE

MORTALITY

REATE

59/1000 LIVE

BIRTHS

Infant mortality rate

47/1000 live births.

Neo natal mortality rate

32/1000 live births

Maternal mortality rate

212/100000 live births

Maternal mortality rate81/100000 live births

Infant mortality rate13/1000 live births.

UNDER FIVE MORTALITY REATE 14/1000 LIVE BIRTHS

IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL DAYS

JANUARY

LAST SUNDAY OF JANUARY

Sunday 27 January 2013 marks the 60th World Leprosy Day

Globally – 2.49 lakhs48000 – womenLeprosy colonies – 13610

February 4th

World Cancer Day 2013

MARCH 8th INTERNATIONAL WOMEN DAY

“A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women”

TUBERCULOSIS

• 4000/ day• Zero death• Universal access to TB care • Faster treatment• Quick, cheap, low-tech test• Vaccine• A world free of TB

The theme for 2013

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

12th MAY

Closing The Gap: Millennium Development Goals 8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1.

World Hepatitis Day28 July 2013

PENTAVALENT IMMUNIZATION

• The pentavalent vaccine helps in reducing the number of shots a child receives from nine to three.

• It is the combination of five vaccines they are diptheria , pertusis,tetanus ,hep b ,hib virus

• Infants are given three doses of the pentavalent vaccine at the sixth, 10th and 14th weeks of age. After that, they need a booster dose of DPT and Hib at 15 to 18 months of age. The vaccine follows the normal immunisation schedule and can be integrated into the immunisation programme of the country

• After some reports attributed these deaths to the vaccine itself, a committee was set up by the UNICEF to probe the same. The reports said that the deaths were not related to the vaccine and it was soon launched in some other states as well.

RECENT EPIDEMICS AND HEALTH PROBLEMS

• DENGUE FEVER• LEPTOSPIROSIS• HEPATITIS

• BIRD FLUE, SWINE FLEU.• CHIKUNGUNEA• WESTERN NEIL FEVER RTA

SUICIDE NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

• FILARIASIS• MALARIA• CHOLERA

DISASTER

As of 16 July 2013 (2013-07-16), according to figures provided by the Uttarakhand government, more than 5,700 people were "presumed dead.