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    Battling periods and access to menstrual hygiene in times of COVID-19
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-07-14) Marwaha, Puja
    With more than 40 percent of Indian women & adolescent girls in the age group of 15-24 years not familiar with safe and hygienic methods of menstrual practices, there should be more focussed dialogue on the subject, especially on the lack of access to menstrual hygiene products during the lockdown.
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    Breastfeeding in times of COVID-19: Will new-born’s miss out on vital nutrition
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-08-05) Marwaha, Puja
    The road to motherhood amid the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic was arduous for Soni Devi, 22, a resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra. She became a mother for the first time on April 30, 2020. There was no ambulance service to take Soni to the healthcare centre when she went into labour amid the countrywide lockdown. After a couple of hours, as her family was preparing for the possibility of a home delivery, a grass roots level local non-profit partner of Child Rights and You (CRY) — Sonbhadra Vikas Samiti (SVS) — intervened. A few frantic phone calls later, a transport arrived.
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    NFHS-5 paints an anaemic picture of child health and nutrition
    (Down To Earth, 2021-12-02) Marwaha, Puja
    It is indeed heartening to see improvements in some child health and nutrition indicators in India, as revealed by the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5). But a closer look at the trends suggests it’s a long way to go in meeting Poshan Abhiyan targets and the United Nations-mandated Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) within the 2022 and 2030 deadlines respectively.
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    The right and healthy way to start a life
    (MINT, 2018-09-13) Marwaha, Puja
    A holistic drive is needed to overcome the socio-cultural barriers and systemic hurdles to improve the health and nutrition outcomes of our children and women It is a country that fares rather poorly on many nutrition indicators. There are 19.8 million children in India, under the age of 6, who are undernourished. It is a well-known fact that the foundation of a healthy life is laid in the first six years.
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    Steps civil society can take to protect vulnerable children amidst Covid-19
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-08-31) Marwaha, Puja
    For the past five months, our screens have been flooded with distressing imagery of one catastrophe after another: From the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable communities, to cyclones in West Bengal, Odisha, and Maharashtra. From locust attacks in the central and northwestern plains, to the floods in Assam and Bihar. All of these have had disastrous effects on the Indian economy—millions in the country lost their jobs or were forced to take pay cuts, economic activity in rural India came to a halt, and migrants were forced to walk hundreds of kilometres back home.
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    Was 2019 an 'Annus horribilis' for India's children?
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2021-12-31) Marwaha, Puja
    There was India’s Greta Thunberg, 11-year-old climate change activist Ridhima Pandey, who was among the 16 children including Greta to file a complaint at the United Nations Climate Action Summit against the lack of government action to save the environment.