75 years of independent India: Time for freedom from period shame
This Independence Day CRY calls for demystifying taboos on menstruation and urges everyone to come forward and break the culture of silence …
3,000 adolescents die every day of preventable causes: WHO
Gains from investments in maternal and child health programmes are not sustained in adolescence
Anaemia: India needs social norms-based interventions at every phase of a woman’s life
While behaviour change communication for drug adherence and knowledge of anaemia as a serious disease is needed, challenging detrimental social …
Girls less physically active than boys due to societal factors: Study
The research also found that 80% of school-going adolescents do not do the recommended one hour of daily physical activity
Counselling, social security measures may improve lives of adolescent mothers
Odisha’s Subarnapur district’s ‘Sanjivanee – the new life’ scheme is a slice of relief as it ensures …
Rajasthan MLAs pledge to safeguard adolescent health
Support from elected representatives will play an important role in ensuring that adolescent health is a priority in Rajasthan, say experts
What’s driving Africa’s population growth. And what can change it
What’s driving population growth on the continent, and what can be done to slow the trend, is one of the subjects that will be addressed …
Inequalities in accessing sexual, reproductive healthcare persist: WHO study
Rates of unintended pregnancies, abortions vary widely within the same region and geographies, it says
Investment in girls’ education critical to arrest child marriages in Jharkhand
In Jharkhand, child marriages account for 7.3 per cent of marriages in rural areas and 3 per cent in urban areas
Should minimum age for marriage of girls be raised to 21
A legal amendment will not be enough; an environment should be created for female children to realise their dreams
How COVID-19 is exposing children to traffickers
School closure due to COVID-19 has not only precluded many from access to education, but also from a source of shelter and nourishment
International Women’s Day: How education can rewrite the story of child marriages in India
Adolescent girls are more vulnerable to child marriage as they drop-out of school before completing education. Here’s an attempt at …
National Girl Child Day: HER day, HER way
Fourteen-year-old leads by example, stops child marriage in West Bengal
Women’s Day 2024: Strength of a collective in a not-so-silent revolution
Kishori dals or girls’ collective that began in Odisha village is helping ensure girls’ rights
Adolescent leadership can address menstruation myths
Around 53% girls surveyed in Jharkhand believed that menstrual blood is dirty
Menstrual hygiene in Africa: No pad or no way to dispose it
Women in sub-Saharan Africa still struggle to have a healthy and safe period
Deficient programme
Centre wants to treat anaemia with iron tablets. Can pills substitute nutritious food?
Unicef ranks India poorly in child mortality
Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh fare better
Rural health, malnutrition get attention
Health sector overall allocated even less than what it received last year, say experts
