Interviews - Page 3
‘Reduce Stigma To Make Women Comfortable Accessing Safe Abortions’
New Delhi: Abortion was legalised in India almost half a century ago, yet unsafe abortions--performed in unhygienic...
How A Healthy Gut Can Be A Bulwark Against India’s Lifestyle-Disease Epidemic
Mount Abu (Rajasthan): Processed food, an overly sanitised environment and an urban lifestyle can reduce beneficial...
‘We Could Reverse Type 2 Diabetes In India In The Next 5 Years’
Mumbai: Aseem Malhotra PhD, is a man with a mission--to drastically reduce the amount of carbohydrates we eat. He claims...
How Conflict-Ridden Afghanistan Improved Its Health In 10 Years
New Delhi: After the fall of the Taliban in 2001 and as a country recovering from conflict, Afghanistan had some of the...
‘Safe Daycare For Children & Safe Public Transport Will Increase Women’s Socio-Economic Involvement’
New Delhi: Women in urban India turn down better employment opportunities further away from home in favour of lower-paid...
‘India Can’t Arrest Child Stunting If It Can’t Fight Poverty’
Carlos Monteiro, professor of nutrition and public health at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, played active roles in...
'Diabetes Epidemic Shifting To Urban Poor, India Needs Urgent Prevention, Screening'
Diabetes, once a disease of the affluent, is now rampant among India's urban poor too and preventive measures and free...
'If India Was Serious About TB, We Would Not Have Such A Staggering Disease Burden'
"India has under-invested in tuberculosis (TB) control for several decades," Madhukar Pai, Canada research chair in...
