A human-rights approach is essential to end the global TB epidemic
it is critical to ensure that tuberculosis services are included within essential universal healthcare packages and social protection programmes
Why is private healthcare opposing the Clinical Establishments Act?
Enforcing the act is troublesome as health is a state subject and states are succumbing to the pressure of the private healthcare sector, driven …
ASHA workers’ strike in Delhi continues
Workers demanding permanent salary and transport allowance
Only 5% of abortions in India take place in public health facilities
Women in India face considerable challenges due to limited availability of abortion services in public health facilities
Will Astana Declaration succeed where Alma-Ata failed?
The new declaration, that renews the global pledge to achieve universal health coverage by 2030, is a step forward but still lacks on several fronts
Budget 2018: Balanced focus on rural, urban health needs will be crucial
The Centre should push for further decentralisation of health services
Cost of setting up an AIIMs shot by 147% in just 4 years: CAG report
From 2006 to 2010, the cost of setting up an AIIMS shot by 147% under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, shows a report by the …
Noise pollution forces patients to check out of hospitals: study
Noise levels in intensive care units have been found to be as high as that generated by loud music coming through headphones
Why International Yoga Day is no cause for celebration in India
The debate around International Yoga Day is not about health benefits. It is about the media spectacle in the name of health when spending on …
Paramedics show the way
How hundreds of villages in Bangladesh have overcome child and maternal mortality 10 years before the MDG deadline
Improving women's well-being needs more than access to free healthcare: study
Data from one of the largest state-funded health insurance scheme in India shows gender disparity continued even where free hospital care was provided
Health infrastructure sans care
Who will run all the institutes and labs promised?
Amid election din, encephalitis quietly kills 104 people in east UP
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's tall claims of improving UP's healthcare system is an insult to the people
Developed nations should invest in healthcare of poorer countries: WHO
The Addis Ababa conference from July 13 to July 16 will also pave the way for the new set of Sustainable Development Goals
Plateful of pain
Climate change will make the disease burden more complex. Breakthroughs may help the affluent, but the poor will not have access to even basic …
Hospitals feel the heat too from extreme weather and its health impacts
Hospital infrastructure has not been adapted to secure health care during such events.
China signs Shanghai Declaration to achieve health goals
Heads of all municipalities in the country vowed to achieve health goals as per the United Nations’ 2030 agenda
Money set aside to build institutions, not public health
Preventive and primary healthcare get a miss in the budget 2014
Laws are chipping away at democracy around the world
Trouble is brewing around the world, say experts
Patients pay for high margins of pharma firms
Patients in India end up paying more for medicines and all kinds of treatment as prevailing conditions do not allow the market to function …
Africa needs preventive approach to health care instead of a curative one: experts
African countries need to understand the link between climate change, migration and exposure to health hazards
The solution for Africa’s health problem is in basing health outside of disease
Health does not begin with disease but is dependent on the way of living, clean environment and good nutrition knowledge
Health insurance schemes unlikely to work without strong public health sector
In poor health part 5: While pan-India enrollment to Rashtriya Suraksha Bima Yojna is declining, number of beneficiaries has increased in …
Head out
The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority's efforts to reign in the private healthcare sector have been scuttled once again. Who is to be blamed?
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