CHINA

Showing the way

In the past 15 years, Mexico has halved its birth rate

UNITED NATIONS

Contraceptive chaos

Copper-T better in emergency, but doctors do not encourage its use

World Population Day: call to end India's target-based approach to family planning

Two-child norm is endangering women's lives and skewing sex-ratio, say activists

Marginal improvement in rural women’s education, finds NFHS-5

Social, cultural stigmas reasons for lack of improvement 

Thirteen women die after undergoing sterilisation at government camp in Chhattisgarh

Locals claim negligence as doctors rushed to meet targets

HEALTHY POLICY

AIDS bill put on fast track

Non profits object to provisions in the changed draft

AFRICA

Chhattisgarh tribals to get sterilisation facilities after 30 years

Planning Commission asks state to ensure no discrimination

FOLLOW UP

Fresh drive to close gaps on health issues facing women and girls

Local capacities critical to making a difference must be strengthened

Guidelines released for evaluation of nano drugs

Nano-pharmaceuticals are expected to be of great use particularly in cancer treatment

India still has a high rate of malnutrition, reveals new National Health Survey

West Bengal has more wasted children than a decade ago

As told to Parliament (March 17, 2023): Over 44 million cases of COVID-19 confirmed in India

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Pill on net

The ideal gap

A two-and-a-half-year gap is ideal between births for the health of the babies

India’s sex ratio improves, but 9 million girls went ‘missing’ in last 2 decades to foeticide

Wealth, education and fertility are the key factors behind improvement

Ventilators for COVID-19: Crisis looms in several states even after 50,000 allocated

More than 7,000 of the Centre-allocated ventilators are lying idle 

'Like MDGs, India may fail to achieve SDG targets on malnutrition'

Women interrupted

Surgical removal of uterus causes unnatural menopause, leads to memory decline

Endgame begins

Experts say India needs to move beyond oral vaccine to battle vaccine-generated polio

Push to prevent cancer, strokes

Government wakes up to threat of non-communicable diseases

ICMR to get more funds, power