India's Great Challenge: Health & Sanitation - Page 4
Caste, Father’s Education, Sanitation Affect Child Malnutrition: New...
A health worker measures the mid-upper arm circumference--an indicator of nutritional status--of a child in Madhya...
How India Can Cut Rampant Antibiotic Misuse In Food Animals
In the absence of clear regulations, most poultry farms keep chickens in confined areas lacking proper sanitation and...
How India Could Save Rs 532 Crore In Treating Multidrug-Resistant TB
A frontline health worker visits a family to build awareness about tuberculosis (TB). Decentralised care for...
Risking Health Of Its Women, India Uses Controversial Contraceptive In Family Planning Programme
In July this year, the Indian government introduced an injectable contraceptive, depot medroxyprogesterone acetate...
Why India’s National Health Insurance Scheme Has Failed Its Poor
Beneficiaries enroll themselves for the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana in Andhra Pradesh. The programme has not led to...
Indian Children Remain Underweight Even As Childhood Obesity Soars Globally
Obesity among children between the ages of five and 19 years has increased ten times over the past four decades across...
Why Women With A Reproductive Disorder Deal With Isolation, Shame
As a woman of reproductive age with a regular menstrual cycle who has decided to not have children, I did not have a...
90,000 Fewer Indian Infants Died In 2016 Compared To 2015
There has been an 8% decline in infant mortality rate (IMR), infant deaths per 1,000 live births, from 2015 to 2016,...
