Health

Renew Efforts To Rid Planet Of TB, UN Chief Urges Governments

Approximately 37 million lives have been saved between 2000 and 2013 through the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and it is possible to end the epidemic by 2035, s...

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Mapping Family?? Health Through Unvaccinated Kids

Indradhanush to cover as many as 89 lakh unimmunised children what can one unimmunised child tell about the health of the entire family? According to officials in the Union Mi...

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TB Alliance Announces Partnership with U.S. Fund For UNICEF

TB Alliance has announced a new partnership with the U.S. Fund for UNICEF that will dramatically increase the scope and impact of child and maternal health programs around the...

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Missed Calls From Patients Can Help Monitor TB Treatment, Says Government.

Popping three pills a day and giving a missed call on a designated number??his is what the government recommends to patients of tuberculosis (TB) registered under the DOTS pro...

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Mizoram Second Highest in India in terms of HIV Prevalence: Health Minister

With more than 7,000 people living with HIV/AIDS and more than a thousand having died of complications associated with the disease since 1990, Mizoram is the state with the se...

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Smart Farming

In a shabby godown-turned-office in Vaishali district, Shashank Kumar, an alumnus of prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), pensively browses through the Internet o...

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HIV/AIDS Sets Alarm Bells Ringing In Chhattisgarh

RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh has failed to secure maternal health, besides remaining a laggard in promoting use of contraceptives as an alternative to female sterilization, according ...

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Maternal Deaths Fall, Yet High

PATNA: Incidence of maternal deaths has shown decline in Bihar though the 208 deaths per one lakh live births are still one of the highest in the country. What should worry po...

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How Can We Empower Women In Agriculture To End Hunger?

Measuring the inclusion of women in the sector is key to creating well-targeted policies that will help farmers increase their yields and feed more hungry people If we??e goin...

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Inaugural Childx conference to be held at Stanford in April

Alan Guttmacher, a leading child health expert, will give a keynote address at the TED-style event April 2-3, which will bring together diverse experts in fetal and child heal...

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POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024

KALEIDOSCOPE: BRIDGING THE SACRED AND THE ARTISTIC

A spiritual and artistic celebration that brings the divine essence of Varanasi’s ...

November 22 2024