India's Great Challenge: Health & Sanitation - Page 11
Driven By Male Reluctance, India’s Contraceptive Use Falls, Population...
A building is painted with a family planning awareness message, issued by the ministry of health and family welfare, in...
More Women Are Delivering In Hospitals, So Why Are So Many Still Dying In Childbirth?
Surujmuni Marandi, 24, had decided to deliver her baby at the Godda district hospital in north-eastern Jharkhand. Like...
Led By Wealthy Urban Women, Caesarean Sections Rise In India
Over 21 years to 2014, the richest quintile--top 20% of the population by income​--undergoing caesarean section...
#Elections2017: New Worries Creep Into Seemingly Healthy Goa
Patients queue up at the registration desk of the out-patient department at the Goa Medical College & Hospital. In Goa,...
#Elections2017: More Wasted Children, Anaemic Men, Women Than Before In Once Robust Punjab
Patients queue up outside the out-patient department at the Civil Hospital in Tarn Taran, 25 km south of Amritsar....
#Elections2017: UP Spends Least On Health, Reflects In Its Ill-Health
With 200 million people, Uttar Pradesh (UP) has about the same population as Brazil; an economy the size of...
Inside India's Blood Black Market
New Delhi: Pramod sells a rare commodity--blood. Paid ‘blood donation' may have been banned in India by a 1996 Supreme...
14,474 Cases Of HIV Through Blood Transfusion, But Govt Denies Crisis
A laboratory assistant examines a blood sample in the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri. Over the last seven years,...
