India’s Infant Mortality Down 42% in 11 Years Yet Higher Than Global...
New Delhi: India has reduced its infant mortality rate (IMR) by 42% over 11 years--from 57 per 1,000 live births in 2006...
Breastfed Right: How Shrirampur’s Babies Escape Malnutrition
Poonam Phulpagar, 24, at her home in Ukkalgaon village in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district. Her youngest daughter,...
In Rajasthan, India’s First Right-To-Healthcare Law Takes Shape
New Delhi and Jaipur: The image of a tribal who carried the corpse of his dead wife for 12 km after a local government...
Indians Dying Of TB Every Year = 2,100 Boeing 737 MAX Crashes
New Delhi: Tuberculosis (TB) costs India $32 billion (Rs 2.2 lakh crore) every year, 3.5 times its 2019 health budget....
New Method Reveals India’s Malnutrition By Parliamentary Constituency
New Delhi: A new technique can measure malnutrition by parliamentary constituency in India, which has the world’s...
India’s Poorest Women Benefit Less From Public Health, Nutrition Services
New Delhi: Despite a four-fold increase in the number of women and children receiving supplementary nutrition under the...
Fighting Drug-Resistant TB: What India Can Learn From South Africa’s Successes
Johannesburg, Cape Town, Khayelitsha (South Africa): In July 2017, 40-year-old Noludwe Mabandlela, a single mother of...
After 4 Years Of Swachh Bharat, Open Defecation Down 26 Percentage Points, But Toilet Use Does Not Match Construction Spree
New Delhi: More Indians living in villages owned a latrine in 2018 than four years ago, yet 44% of them still defecate...
