Combating AMR: How Delhi’s campaign design for school kids helped

Schools, as institutions for people in their formative years, are strategic settings for advancing health promotion skills, practices and …

No integration in India’s disease data collection systems: Niti Aayog

White paper highlights several lacunae including shortage of human resources, occupational health, surveillance; suggests series of measures …

Electing India’s health transformation

The new government must convene a meeting of central and state health ministers annually, to build consensus across the political spectrum and …

India's Health Crisis

Insufficient allocation for the health sector pushing 7% of Indians below the poverty line and about 23% of the sick can't afford healthcare

Scientists develop non-invasive technique to assess burn wound healing

A mere laser light is enough to check the status of recovery

Zika has unborn victims in Madhya Pradesh

As India fights its first Zika outbreak, Down To Earth finds a grievously unprepared response system in virus-hit districts of Vidisha and Bhopal …

Obituary: Amit Sengupta (1958 to 2018) was a powerful voice for health equity

His optimism and persistence will inspire generations of activists

Medical draft Bill will commercialise education, say doctors

NITI Aayog is championing privatisation and commercialisation of medical education in India, says the Alliance of Doctors for Ethical Healthcare

Dash for cash

Government unprepared but goes ahead with direct cash transfer

Short on paramedics

Hospitals employ untrained staff due to acute shortage of qualified paramedics in the country

Gujarat's Chirajeevi Yojana fails to deliver

US$ 32 million given to private healthcare sector under the scheme to improve maternal and child health, but childbirth-related complications …

Vyapam virus

The scam in Madhya Pradesh exposes the criminal nexus which has infected India's medical education system

Medical education in India does not address larger social needs for health care

Medical education is in the news for all the wrong reasons. The government's decision to extend reservations in institutions of higher education …

Letters

Superstars lend a voice

UNITED NATIONS

AIDS messages: tell-all, or nothing?

What do Sushma Swaraj and George W Bush have in common? A mutual contempt of condoms, for one. The us president is known to prefer spreading the …

Rise in medical education fees on the cards

Prompted by a financial crunch, the ministry of health is considering raising fees in medical colleges to recover costs

Care not cure

Is the answer to the AIDS problem in migrants

Radio stations in Ghana to talk about AIDS

Health monitor

The government clears a new policy to monitor epidemics and reduce disaster impacts

KILLER DISEASE

LOAN TO PAK

AIDS set to strike with a vengeance

Blissfully unaware India and China to be hardest hit

AIDS awareness campaign in West Bengal embarrasses many