A report by Oxfam criticises the World Bank and other international donors for scaling up privatised healthcare delivery in poor countries More...

In an attempt to improve health services in rural areas, community and primary healthcare centres in Gujarat will seek accreditation from the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals More...

A decade after governments pledged to achieve a “drug-free world,” there is little evidence that the supply or demand of illicit drugs has been reduced. Instead, aggressive drug control policies have led to increased incarceration for minor offences, human rights violations, and disease More...

The petitioners allege that a health ministry order suspending vaccine production at three units in the country has aggravated vaccine shortages, jeopardised India’s Universal Immunisation Programme, and handed the field over to the private sector that can hold the government ransom and call the shots in setting prices More...

A new report finds that public healthcare generally suffers from underfunding and poor utilisation of whatever resources are available. It also points to huge disparities within the states as regards health indicators, availability of medical graduates, quality of service and rising cost of healthcare More...

The low-cost, low-tech breathalyser is extremely effective in detecting early cases of tuberculosis and will be launched first in India, which has the highest burden of tuberculosis in the world More...

Forty-four per cent of women get married by the age of 18, 53% of children in one survey reported sexual abuse, and 46% of calls coming into a helpline were from young people in the 15-24 age-group. These are figures quoted in an open letter urging sexuality education for young people More...

Women who were offered PRO2000 gel plus condoms in the trial had 30% fewer HIV infections than those offered only condoms or condoms plus a placebo gel More...

Avoidable complications during childbirth kill 78,000 women in India every year. One million children die in the country every year before they become 28 days old. These are some of the disturbing findings of Unicef’s ‘State of the World’s Children 2009’ report More...

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