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‘Sedentary Lifestyle Responsible For Diabetes Surge’
Mumbai: A recent study by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) estimated that in 2021, India had 101 million...
DataViz: One In Five Families With Mental Health Expenses Fell Below Poverty Line
Mumbai: For families that had a member with a mental illness, nearly a fifth of household monthly expenditure is spent...
What India Must Do To End TB Conclusively
Mount Abu, Rajasthan: “I have no hesitation [to say] that India will end tuberculosis (TB) by 2025,” said the executive...
Karnataka’s Muktha Centres Show How Govt Hospitals Can Support Domestic Violence Survivors
Chikkaballapur, Bengaluru, Karnataka: Twenty-eight-year-old Amruta smiled as she showed us the grainy photo of her two...
Community-Led Mental Health Interventions Could Make Therapy More Accessible
New Delhi: Most health systems consider mental health therapy as an individualised form of medicine, but community...
Debt, Distress Sales: How Indians Pay For Healthcare
Mumbai: Ghazala* (26) and her sister took their father Imran* from Tatanagar in Jharkhand to Kolkata when he fell ill in...
India's 'Progressive' Abortion Law Is Failing LGBTQIA+ Indians
New Delhi: For Shaman Gupta, logging on to Facebook was almost a ritual of survival in 2015. The tiny chat boxes allowed...
UP's Shravasti Has Fewer Primary Health Centres Than The Norm
Shravasti, Uttar Pradesh: Data from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare from 2020-21 show that there is a...