Positive partnership

Community welfare works as a contraceptive

In Pakistan, they are controlling population growth by raising the living standards of local communities through Pasbaan, the social …

Blinded by figures

By 2010, the world's population will have gone up to 6 billion. But at the recent New York meeting on population and development, counting heads …

Is pregnancy a disease?

The development of birth-control methods that use the body's immune system may be more convenient than condoms and pills. But several groups …

HIV bill at risk

Health ministry keeps draft bill under wraps. Activists fear provision of free treatment is diluted

Turmoil in academia

Tenure of Medical Council of India’s governing body set to expire; Centre unclear about next move

Endgame begins

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

TB turns invincible

Discovery of a deadly form of TB in a Mumbai hospital  underscores mismanagement

Money matters

Sonal Matharu finds out how schemes for women and children are all about making money and neglect their health

Tough nut to crack

Cancer, who cares!

Warnings, pictures showing ill effects of tobacco on packets have not worked

Rags to pads

Self-help groups making low-cost sanitary napkins are ready to supply them to rural India

Trial and error

Recent notifications offer no security to clinical trial participants

When birth control means business

Government’s scheme to give monetary remuneration to health workers for counselling couples on family planning may just backfire, says …

Leprosy looms

Latest survey dismisses government’s claims of disease elimination  

Health Act faces hurdles

Centre drafts guidelines to regulate clinical establishments; Indian Medical Association resists

Degree without honours

Parliamentary committee turns down a proposed three-year course in rural health

Impatient to sterilise

In a hurry to bring down fertility rate, health officials are blatantly flouting government’s guidelines

Choking access to drugs

Drug prices are likely to increase as rich countries and their pharma companies squeeze Indian generics out of the market. How can India’s …

Universal health scare

The country’s planners are debating how to provide healthcare to all. In a drastic shift from the 65-year-old public health system, the …

Matter of life and death

Cradles of hope

A recent health survey throws up figures that defy logic. Some districts in India’s nine most backward states have curbed infant mortality …

Deadly target

Health experts blame Centre's over-emphasis on women's sterilisation for the Chhattisgarh tragedy

Justice delayed, denied

Five months after 14 women died in sterilisation camps in Chhattisgarh, there is no sign of justice being delivered to those who lost their kin. …

Operation cover-up

Rat poison theory offered by the Chhattisgarh government to explain the sterilisation deaths is a facade, finds an investigation by Jyotsna Singh.…