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A Month In, Here's How India Has Fared On COVID Vaccination
New Delhi: India has administered the COVID-19 vaccine to 8.4 million people in one month since launching the world's...
How Incomplete Health Data On Adolescents Hamper Policy Design
New Delhi: India routinely misestimates thinness, overweight and stunting among adolescents because official data...
'Even Once Vaccinated Against COVID-19, Don't Let Your Guard Down'
Mumbai: The curve of new COVID-19 infections in India is flattening, at present. On September 16, 2020, while India was...
What Kerala's COVID-19 'Failure' Can Tell Us About India's 'Success'
Chennai: India witnessed a peak of one million active COVID-19 cases in mid-September 2020, followed by a consistent...
'We Should Build A Political Demand For High Quality Healthcare For All'
Mumbai: "India's economy rides on the health of its people", wrote K. Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health...
Despite Pandemic, Health Budget Sees Little Real Increase
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a new healthcare scheme--the Pradhan Mantri Atma Nirbhar Swasth...
India's COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participants Claim They Were Misled
Bhopal: Seventy-four-year-old Man Singh Parihar is agitated sitting outside his neighbour's house in Bhopal on a cold...
India Has Mental Health Pensions But They Rarely Reach The Affected
New Delhi: Jalaluddin Kazi*, 38, lives with bipolar disorder and often has seizures. A resident of North Dumdum near...