By Saadia Azim

Scores of women living in inaccessible island villages across West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district are finally able to access ante- and postnatal healthcare, and have institutional deliveries at community delivery centres and hospitals More...

Minnie Vaid travels to Bagrumnala, a Khmar tribal village tucked away in the forests of Chhattisgarh, where Binayak Sen is a legend, and where he set up a remarkable model of rural healthcare, working with the community on everything from healthcare to nutrition and education More...

By Rahul Goswami

The Indian government has been quick to rubbish the Lancet study on the NDM-1 bacterium, choosing to see this as a commercial problem that will impact our growing medical tourism industry, rather than as a healthcare problem that could seriously impact a country where antibiotics are overused and where scant attention is paid to infection control in hospitals More...

By B Jayashree

Cervical cancer affects millions in India. It can be effectively treated if diagnosed early. Now, the VIA/VILI kit, which costs only Rs 5 and can be used by any healthcare professional, is being introduced across Tamil Nadu, offering women the possibility of early detection and treatment More...

By Usha Rai

The government’s Janani Suraksha Yojana is pushing pregnant women towards institutional deliveries, but a study finds that the system is not ready to handle them. Women report terrible experiences at public health centres More...

By Sandhya Srinivasan

Fifteen per cent of India’s 2.5 million HIV-positive are children. That’s 375,000 children, with 50,000 being born infected or becoming infected each year. The government has woken up to the tragedy of women and children infected or affected by AIDS and held a series of public hearings across the country recently More...

By Rimjhim Jain

Organised networks of HIV-positive people have penetrated to the districts where they are active in reaching out to each and every identified positive person to bring them their rights. Most prevention and care programmes by both national and international bodies closely liaise now with DLNs to ensure the success of their projects More...

Text & Photographs by Chitrangada Choudhury

Though many migrant workers from south Madhya Pradesh have died of the incurable workplace disease called silicosis contracted from inhaling quartz dust in stone crushing factories in Gujarat, the public health system has carried out no comprehensive survey to identify the disease, which is often passed off as tuberculosis, many factories have not installed anti-pollution systems, and the NHRC has been sitting on the case since 2006 More...

By Deepanjali Bhas

Promoting something as simple as breastfeeding can reduce infant mortality by 11.6%. But though India has among the worst infant and child mortality figures in the world, 75% of the nation’s children are not breastfed from birth and over 50% are not exclusively breastfed. More...

By Moushumi Basu

The fluoride level in water taken from a hand pump in Sidekhurd and other villages of Garwa district is more than twice the permissible level of 1 ppm. Acute dental and skeletal disorders plague these villagers, but they know nothing about fluorosis. Government admits that of the 550 fluoride control mechanisms installed, 100 are defunct More...

By Anosh Malekar

The last time Pune saw a public health crisis like the present swine flu outbreak was the plague epidemic in 1897. As the city virtually shuts down, Pune’s haphazard growth, precarious infrastructure and complete unpreparedness for a crisis are exposed More...

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