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AS INDIAN SLUMS GROW, AID FOCUSES ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN
June 02, 2008
WASHINGTON, June 2 -- The U.S. Agency for International Development issued the following newsletter:

Millions of Indian families have moved into cities in recent years. But in addition to finding jobs and opportunity, they have formed pockets of poverty where mothers and children often fall prey to preventable diseases.

Some 20 percent of the world's maternal deaths and 25 percent of children's deaths occur in India, and many of these are among the 100 million urban . . .

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