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States With Highest Stunting Rates Are India’s Poorest (But Not...
Countries with high rates of stunting are likely to be less prosperous, according to a recent report. Six of 10 Indian...
India Has Prevented 1 Million Child Deaths Since 2005; Poorer States, Rural Areas Lag
India prevented 1 million deaths among children under five years of age between 2005 and 2015. Three million more deaths...
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,...
India Is Failing Its Infants Long Before They Arrive At Hospital
A low birth weight baby at Sick New Born Care Unit, Kashida, East Singhbhum district, Jharkhand. The death of 70 infants...
In India’s Malaria Hotbed, A Remote, Tribal Village Fights Back
A health worker collects the blood sample of a child at mass screening for malaria at Budabirmaha, a hamlet in...
27 Regional Hubs, 300 Hospitals, Yet Patients Journey To 1 Mumbai Cancer Centre
1 million are diagnosed with cancer every year; 680,000 of them die. India’s cancer burden to rise 70% by 2035. ...
Bankrupt, Poorly Educated, Desperate: Cancer Patients On Mumbai Footpath
A cancer patient and his wife and daughter sit on the divider under the monorail station near Tata Memorial Hospital,...
