ASHA workers’ strike in Delhi continues

Workers demanding permanent salary and transport allowance

Gender, caste discrimination, mistreatment by superiors: Mental stress takes a toll on ASHA workers, shows study

ASHA workers in Sehore, Madhya Pradesh share the hurdles they face every day at homes of residents and workplaces

With training and incentive, ASHAs can help address lifestyle diseases: Study

Study finds that ASHAs feel overburdened

COVID-19 second wave: Model Gujarat doesn't shine through

Amid a rapid surge in case numbers, communities face shortages of food, wage works and hospital beds

Adolescent leadership can address menstruation myths

Around 53% girls surveyed in Jharkhand believed that menstrual blood is dirty

Interim Budget 2019: The full coverage

Here is a look at what all was promised by Union Minister Piyush Goyal and if it stands in the real world

Both financial and non-financial factors matter for ASHAs: Study

Preferences change depending on factors including level of education, size of family, status as main earner

Delhi HC dismisses PepsiCo plea against revocation order on its IPR certificate for potato variety

The company had sued farmers from Gujarat citing intellectual property rights on FL-2027   

Women workers release manifesto demanding changes at workplace

Women from different sectors come together to demand change in the current workplace environment to ensure no discrimination against women

Women's Day: These 900,000 health workers have no reason to celebrate

No end in sight for these accredited social health activists who have not received remuneration for months 

Freebie critics should look at welfare schemes’ transformative abilities to change lives

A large number of people can reap benefits of such schemes if the delivery system is improved and gaps in implementation are plugged

New mobile app may help in addressing heart disease in rural areas

A group of Indian and Australian scientists has developed and tested a mobile application-based system that promises to help doctors and health …

Interim Budget 2019: ASHA, Anganwadi workers not enthused by Piyush Goyal’s ‘sop’

What we really want is a fixed salary, even if it means less than Rs 10,000 a month, they say

Odisha’s Ganjam district is now free of child marriages

Ganjam, known to be severely affected by child marriages, is Odisha’s first district to be declared child marriage free

Mitanins: The women who kept Chhattisgarh safe during the COVID-19 pandemic

The administration, however, has not compensated other Mitanins’ work adequately and has thus been misusing their sense …

COVID-19: Kerala needs to revisit approach

As area-specific control measures are failing on the ground, the state needs to explore alternative strategies

Community health workers on COVID-19 frontlines: Why policies need to be gender-sensitive

From wages to travel, women community health workers had a harder time carrying out COVID-19 duties in Bundelkhand, according to a survey 

Anganwadi, ASHA work massively disrupted during COVID-19 pandemic: Survey

Workers reported increase in stress levels, study finds

COVID-19: The unfolding predicament in villages of Thar desert

Infrastructural constraints are intensified by lack of substantive knowledge, awareness and behavioural limitations about health

Training health workers can help manage hypertension in villages 

Early detection and management of hypertension is necessary to prevent complications, but shortfall of trained health workforce, particularly in …

India to eradicate kala-azar by 2015: Harsh Vardhan

AmBisome injection to be provided free, incentive to ASHA workers and patients

Health activists call for roll back of flagship health insurance scheme

The Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana is asymmetrical and increases corruption, they said on releasing their new manifesto

Why women in Jharkhand’s backward areas are denied basic maternal care

Adivasis, often believed to be "resistant", have made attempts to engage with the modern healthcare system. But it is the health …

COVID-19: ‘Inadequate food for children, pregnant women at Delhi Anganwadi centres’

Half-kg panjiri, 250-gm groundnuts being supplied to beneficiaries instead of nutrition kits, claimed Anganwadi workers in letter to Delhi …

Official document exposes government’s intent to incentivise sterilisation

Fourteen women had died and 140 others were left ill after a botched sterilisation drive in Chhattisgarh