Routine Immunisation should not suffer due to COVID-19: WHO

Many Indian states have also suspended vaccination services

COVID-19: WHO criticises countries for not ensuring dignity of migrants during lockdowns

Indian states suspends routine immunisation, WHO says it is unfair

COVID-19: Has community transmission begun in India?

Govt denies India in Phase 3 but experts not sure about its claim

IQ tests: the danger of reading too much into them – and the crucial cognitive skills they don’t measure

The ethos of a modern school is rightly not driven by a preference to educate only those children who on selection meet a minimum standard on a …

These women near Delhi’s Bhalswa landfill are growing greens in their backyards with a purpose

They are doing so as part of an initiative to improve women and girls’ access to nutrition; the vegetables are grown with natural inputs

Bigger share of non-communicable, injury neurological disorders in India’s disease burden

Stroke, headache disorders and epilepsy were the biggest contributors of India's neurlogical disease burden

India is facing a nasty outbreak of H3N2 — worst of seasonal flu viruses

H3N2 is a strain responsible for one of the three respiratory pandemics in the past century

Climate’s clear connect: Healthcare systems resilient to global warming are a challenge for Africa

Extreme weather events triggered by climate change are a drag on the capacity of Africa’s already-stretched healthcare systems 

COVID-19 pandemic & children: Long-term impacts warrant concern

The physical and psychological effects of the pandemic pose major threats to children’s development

HIV, TB, malaria prevalence will reduce with fewer inequalities in healthcare: WHO

A recent WHO report takes a look at 32 health indicators from 186 countries on HIV, TB and malaria, that kill 2 million annually  

Number of tobacco users continues to decrease globally: WHO

However, several countries are still not adequately implementing policies to help tobacco users to quit, the WHO said

Anaemia: India needs social norms-based interventions at every phase of a woman’s life

While behaviour change communication for drug adherence and knowledge of anaemia as a serious disease is needed, challenging detrimental social …

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

Gender decides how healthcare expenditure is financed in India

Females are always at a more disadvantaged position in terms of healthcare financing, according to our analysis

Troubled interiors: How COVID-19 second wave has struck deep in heartland India

The second wave saw COVID-19 spread beyond urban centres, infecting rural and tribal populations. DTE examined 16 severely hit districts on how …

Why social media health check must include Global South

There is plenty of evidence showing how social media use can affect youth mental health but studies often omit the developing countries of the …

Global health systems receive only 4.9% international funds to adapt to climate change: Study

Funds required in early warnings, climate-resilient health infrastructure, say researchers

Infographic: Maternal mortality in India

India has improved its maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to 97 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2018-2020 from 103 in 2017-2019. Still, in 11 …

African health ministers launch campaign to arrest sickle cell disease

Approximately 1,000 children are born with the disease every day in Africa, making it the most prevalent genetically-acquired disease in the region

What India’s first assessment of district hospitals found

Not all 707 district hospitals performed as standards demand  

Depletion of particular brain tissue linked to chronic depression, suicide: Study

Astrocytes, a kind of supportive nerve cells, were found in much lower quantity in people who died by suicide

Vaccine leadership, not chauvinism

We need the world’s drug regulators to come together to scrutinise clinical trial data — not take decisions one after another

COVID-19: How Africa is coping despite fragile healthcare systems

Even as African countries are gearing to deal with the outbreak, experts say more needs to be done 

COVID-19: WHO criticises India's blanket travel ban

Such measures in their own right will do nothing to protect individual states, says top WHO official to DTE query

What is ‘noma’, the latest addition to WHO’s list of neglected tropical diseases

The severe gangrenous disease of mouth and face has 90% mortality rate and is associated with extreme poverty, malnutrition