Need to integrate health care and nutrition

Jaipur: April 28, 2010

The “Pilani recommendations” released at the end of a three-day international conference on women's empowerment at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) in Pilani over the weekend called for delivery of an integrated package of health and nutrition to women with a “robust political will” to ensure both maternal and child survival. Gender experts, researchers and policy-makers from 18 developing countries took part in the global round-table, organised by the Women Studies and Societal Development Unit of BITS and the Centre for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries, New Delhi, with the support of UNICEF-Rajasthan.

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