Rapports

In Numbers Poor nutrition among women of reproductive age remains an issue in Sri Lanka, with 10 percent underweight and 45 percent overweight or obese. Meanwhile, 33 percent of pregnant and lactating women are anaemic. Sri Lanka ranks…

Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha has said,over the past four decades Sri Lanka has provided valuable case studies to the world in the successes in the operationalization of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and humanitarian diplomacy, as well…

In Numbers Poor nutrition among women of reproductive age remains an issue in Sri Lanka, with 10 percent underweight and 45 percent overweight or obese. Meanwhile, 33 percent of pregnant and lactating women are anaemic. Sri Lanka ranks…

The Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Ministry and the National Dengue Control Unit has warned the public that there is an outbreak of dengue.The Ministry requests the public to take an NS1 test at a state…

Bulletin Highlights From 23-29 September considerable rainfall occurred in all parts of the country, except the Northern areas. The latter part of the South-West monsoon - with an atmospheric disturbance due to cyclonic systems - caused heavy rains, creating…

In Numbers Poor nutrition among women of reproductive age remains an issue in Sri Lanka, with 10 percent underweight and 45 percent overweight or obese. Meanwhile, 33 percent of pregnant and lactating women are anaemic. Sri Lanka ranks…

Thanamalwila, Moneragala – The Country Representative of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Brenda Barton, and the Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Sri Lanka, Ritsu Nacken, jointly handed over anthropometric equipment…

Two people died and seven were injured as over 142,000 people remained affected by the heavy rains and strong winds that slammed across the island since early this week, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said yesterday.…

Husband and wife, Jesuthasan and Sutharsiny Delance, live in a two-room brick house with their two children in Vavuniya district in north central Sri Lanka. They have four acres of rice paddy fields, as well as…

In Numbers Poor nutrition among women of reproductive age remains an issue in Sri Lanka, with 10 percent underweight and 45 percent overweight or obese. Meanwhile, 33 percent of pregnant and lactating women are anaemic. Sri Lanka ranks…