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Data from the latest National Family Health Survey collected between February 23
and May 9, 2015 shows 53.7 percent of women surveyed, reported undergoing
sterilization through tubectomy

WHO:
Almost around 6 million people die from tobacco use and exposure to tobacco
smoke
One death in every six seconds
22% of the worlds population aged 15+ is smokers
Global Youth Tobacco Survey (2009)
Nearly 15 per cent of children in India in the 13-15 age group who used some form of
tobacco:
Only 4.5 per cent smoked cigarettes;
12.5 per cent used other forms of tobacco such as bidis and chewing tobacco
Case of adults in India, of the nearly 35 per cent tobacco users in 2009-2010:
only 5.7 per cent smoked cigarettes
Bidi and chewing tobacco users were 9.2 per cent and nearly 26 per cent,
respectively

National Crime Records Bureau data, the number of Dalits murdered in

2014 rose to 73 from 28 the previous year
The India Human Development Survey conducted jointly by the NCAER and the
University of Maryland, supports the finding that theres been an increase in accessing
the PDS, nationally.

A recent survey by the National Council of Applied Economic Research(NCAER) found that
more than 90 per cent ration card-holders in Below Poverty Line (BPL) / Priority Households
(PHH) and the Antyodaya Anna Yojna category purchase foodgrain at subsidised prices from the
PDS in selected States.

to NSSO report approximately 1/4 of Indian

population are among below poverty line.

Socio Economic Census (2011)

30.7% rural households (HHs) have latrine facilities.
Of this 63.2% rural HHs have toilets with no drainage as against only 18.2%
urban HHs
Just 2.2% rural HHs have piped sewer system.

A recent UNICEF report says 54% people defecate in the open in India as against just
7% each in Bangladesh and Brazil.
Only 6% rural children below 5 years in India use toilets and about 50% of all Indians
regularly wash their hands with soap after with excreta.

The UN released its High-Level Panel report on Access to Medicines showing concerns over
nonaccessibility of medicines due to high prices.
Highlights of the Report
The report has urged governments to
Urgently increase their current levels of investment in health technology innovation.
De-link drug prices from R&D costs.

Institutional delivery rates in rural

and urban areas were 28.9% and 67.5% respectively as per
NFHS-III in 2005-06.

The latest Lancet series on maternal health reveals that

nearly one quarter of babies worldwide are still delivered in
the absence of a skilled birth attendant.
one-third of the total maternal deaths in 2015 happened in
two countries: India and Nigeria

The Global TB Report 2016, recently released, has revised the estimates for the tuberculosis (TB)
burden in
India upwards.
Key Findings of the report
India has 27 per cent of the global burden of incident
tuberculosis and 34 per cent of global TB deaths.

The global ranking of prestigious Indian institutes have

gone down with Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bangalore, along with six top-ranked Indian Institutes
of Technology (IITs), dropped in the latest QS World

University Rankings 2016-17