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...

By Paramita Chaudhuri

India offers just one hospital bed nationally per 15,400 mentally ill patients. The situation in West Bengal is no different. A unique outsider art exhibition of dolls in Kolkata recently helped mentally handicapped individuals from two state-run institutions make dolls that communicate their lives and aspirations to each other and the outside world More...

By Anosh Malekar

With the spotlight on lifestyle diseases like diabetes and hypertension, traditional illnesses like sickle cell disease, which affects tribals all across India, are not receiving the attention they deserve More...

Rashme Sehgal visits a state-of-the-art sick and newborn care unit in the Guna district hospital in Madhya Pradesh. When set up across 50 districts in MP, this model is expected to reduce the infant mortality rate from 74 to 40 per 1,000 More...

By Usha Rai

A drop-in sexual-health centre in New Delhi and an adolescence sex education programme for class 10 students in rural and urban Haryana clearly demonstrate the benefits of sexuality education and counseling for youth More...

By M Suchitra

A unique home-based palliative and chronic care movement is sweeping through Kerala. Thousands of trained citizens are volunteering two hours a week to take care of the chronically ill in villages and cities. Funding for this community-based scheme that has won WHO recognition comes in cash and kind from citizens, including schoolchildren, bus drivers, labourers and others More...

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