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India Skips 6 Of 16 Key WHO Recommendations on TB
India does not implement six out of the 16 key World Health Organisation (WHO)- recommended tuberculosis (TB) control...
Why India Needs To Count Its Broken Toilets
In 2016, as many as 96.5% of rural elementary government schools in India had toilets, but more than one in four toilets...
C-Section Rates Reveal The Need For Smarter Indian Healthcare Policy
In 2011-12, more than 50% of deliveries in nine of 10 Telangana districts were caesarean section deliveries...
19 Indians Die Daily In Drink-Driving Mishaps. Here’s How That Can Change
India’s daily drink-driving death toll of 19 could be reduced if police checking is made unpredictable to drivers who...
Benefits Of Ending Child Marriage, Early Birth = India’s Annual Higher Education Budget
Over the next seven years, India could save $5 billion (Rs 33,500 crore) in healthcare and related costs if it...
'Diabetes Epidemic Shifting To Urban Poor, India Needs Urgent Prevention, Screening'
Diabetes, once a disease of the affluent, is now rampant among India's urban poor too and preventive measures and free...
Shame, Taboo Resulting In Unhygienic Menstrual Practices Across Much of India
Only in seven of India’s 36 states/union territories did 90% or more women in the 15-24 age group use hygienic...

India’s Great Healthcare Challenge—And Opportunity
India added 450 million people over the 25 years to 2016, a period during which the proportion of people living in...





