2. “An awareness of the need for coexistence
amidst diversity is the only way to alleviate
the suffering of others”
- Amma.

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6. 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.’

7. 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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

13. 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

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

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

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

18. 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.)

19. 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

20. 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

21. Maternal mortality rate
81/100000 live births
Infant mortality
rate
13/1000 live births.
UNDER FIVE MORTALITY
REATE
14/1000 LIVE BIRTHS

22. IMPORTANT
INTERNATIONAL DAYS

23. JANUARY
LAST SUNDAY OF JANUARY
Sunday 27 January 2013 marks
the 60th World Leprosy Day

24. Globally – 2.49 lakhs
48000 – women
Leprosy colonies – 13610

25. February 4th
World Cancer Day 2013

26. MARCH 8th
INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN DAY
“A promise is a promise: Time for action
to end violence against women”

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

29. The theme for 2013
HIGH
BLOOD PRESSURE

32. 12th
MAY
Closing The Gap:
Millennium
Development Goals
8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1.

37. World Hepatitis Day
28 July 2013

38. 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

39. • 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

41. • 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.

42. 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

43. 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.