The Gates accounts

CBI gets tough on rural health mission scam in Uttar Pradesh

How Central funds meant for upgrading healthcare facilities are siphoned off

Uttar Pradesh engages Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve health, agriculture and financial services to the poor

Health activists wary

Pentavalent vaccine approved in five more states. Health ministry brushes aside safety concerns

Four children in Kerala reportedly died immediately after the vaccine was administered

No infrastructure for universal health coverage in India, says report

Infrastructure for primary healthcare has decreased in the past decade

The link between blood pressure and suicides

Get your own vaccine

Healthcare services for adivasis in a shambles

Pregnant, anaemic, adivasi women do not even get iron tablets

Education policy for kids under six

Experts say the plan misses diet, care and ignores children with special needs

Rising trend

Poor and the young are new victims of hypertension

Political parties use rural health mission scam stick to beat Mayawati government

Bahujan Samaj Party leader defiant blames UPA for the mess

Out of pocket health spending has risen in rural India: study

Even after adjusting inflation, spending has increased 25 per cent in six years

ASHAs not enough to deliver healthcare to urban poor: study

'Women in urban slums need a basket of healthcare services to meet their needs'

Budget through the years post liberalisation

Run up to Budget 2012-13

Rural health, malnutrition get attention

Health sector overall allocated even less than what it received last year, say experts

Lalitpur’s baby formula

Programme to promote breastfeeding improves health of children under two

Thirty years of rural health research: South Africa’s Agincourt studies offer unique insights

A health and socio-demographic surveillance system was established in remote, rural South Africa in 1992 

Why India remains malnourished

Despite a fast-growing economy and the largest anti-malnutrition programme, India has the world’s worst level of child malnutrition. The …

Punjab closer to ODF sustainability with community toilet guidelines

Recommendations not clear on how to treat waste, reuse groundwater   

Infographic: India lacks rural health centres, human resources to run them

As on March 31,2021, health centres at all three levels are catering to more population than recommended

More than half of India’s April COVID-19 deaths were in rural districts

Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, 7 other states / UTs recorded more cases and deaths in rural districts last month

Technological innovation to drive healthcare interventions

Data standardisation, security and privacy protection have to be addressed and regulated before rolling out such interventions

This district in Bihar ignores antenatal care; budget allocation very low: survey

Almost 95 per cent of funds allocated for nutrition intervention for pregnant women in Bihar’s Purnea district were utilised for …

Budget 2023-24: Marginal rise in health budget not enough to keep up with inflation, experts say

Lesser allocation for health over the years also indicates that we need to go a long way to reach the target of spending 2.5 per cent of GDP for …