More Sanitation, Literacy = Fewer Anaemic, Pregnant Women
A frontline health worker counsels a pregnant woman on antenatal care, in Banswara district, Rajasthan. All 14 states...
Why 1.1 Million HIV+ve Indians Don't Get Drugs They Need
Students pose with HIV/AIDS awareness messages painted on their faces during an awareness campaign in Chandigarh. Only...
2,234 Get HIV Via Blood Transfusion. We Didn't Know: Govt To Lok Sabha
Activists take part in an AIDS awareness rally in Kolkata, West Bengal. Despite a 5% decline in the number of patients...
Why India Needs 35 Tankers Of Blood
India is 35 tanker-trucks short of the blood it requires for medical procedures, yet some areas of the country wasted...
India Short Of 500,000 Doctors, Bodies On Shoulders Reminders Of Health Crisis
In Odisha, a man slung his wife's body over his shoulder and carried it 10 km after being denied an ambulance on August...
Fewer Indians Using Contraception, Despite Better Awareness, Services
A sex worker blows a condom inside a tram car during an AIDS awareness programme in Kolkata. Despite greater access to...
India's Quiet Tide Of Childhood Obesity
Madurai: When 12-year-old Madhu (not his real name) was diagnosed as obese—he weighed 98 kg when his ideal weight was 55...
How Mysore Beat Chandigarh To Be India's Cleanest City
Chandigarh, India's first planned city--known for wide roads laid out in geometrical precision and large, green spaces...
