By Sushmita Malaviya

Recent data from NFHS-III reveals that an overwhelming majority of Indians feel their children should be taught about sexual behaviour and HIV/AIDS in school. Nevertheless, Uttar Pradesh, with the country’s highest infant mortality rate and high maternal mortality and fertility rates, has chosen to ban its very successful Adolescent Education Programme in schools across the state More...

By N P Chekkutty

Two reasons are attributed to the return of many epidemics to Kerala, a state that had achieved developed-country status in all the major human development indices: erosion of the grassroots-level public healthcare system that once thrived on government support, and dysfunctional municipal systems that do not deal effectively with waste-disposal More...

By Bharathi Ghanashyam

Why is AIDS awareness so limited, despite 20 years of national and international efforts? Is it time to devise more creative and innovative measures, such as having one health worker in each primary health centre dedicated to spreading awareness on HIV/AIDS? More...

By Shelley Seale

Yesu Babu of Vambay Colony in Vijayawada is 12. He has lost both his parents to AIDS. His younger brother is positive. There are almost 2 million AIDS orphans like him in India. But the national and global response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in India has virtually ignored children More...

By Rupa Chinai

In the first such major experiment of its kind in the country, the Manas project trains local people in Goa to deal with common mental health disorders, including depression, within the primary health setting More...

By Andrea Cornwall

Brazil's innovative institutions offer inspiring lessons for engaging citizens in improving health for all More...

By Rupa Chinai

Hafeeza Begum of Sipajhar is one of thousands of patients in Assam who are desperate to find a cure for tuberculosis but for whom the divide between availability of services and access to them is impossible to bridge More...

By Darryl D'Monte

South Asia has 900 million people without sanitation. The problem, as the success of recent total-sanitation community projects have demonstrated, is not a lack of funds but a lack of conviction amongst people that they need sanitation, and that they can meet those needs themselves More...

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By N P Chekkutty

It is not by accident that the most violent clashes in Kerala in recent times have been the Muthanga adivasi struggle in Wayanad and the communal flare-ups in coastal Maradu. Kerala's famed model of development left the tribal-dominated hills and the coastal fisher communities socially, politically and economically marginalised, leaving the coast clear for communal forces to enter More...

By Rupa Chinai

At the Rowmari state health dispensary in Bodoland, which caters to villages within an 8 km radius, there is no electricity, no anti-malarial drugs, no paper and pens even for birth and death certificates. The health facilities here are indicative of the state of all Bodo areas, which show shockingly high maternal and infant mortality rates More...

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