India's COVID Vaccination May Derail Other Immunisation Programmes
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 vaccination target of delivering up to 500 million doses by July, which is largely piggy-back...
Mother & Child
What Child Stunting Numbers Tell Us About North-East Indian States
Bengaluru and Delhi: Stunting among children aged below five has increased in four northeastern Indian states, a trend no...
Women Collectives Tackle Teen Sex, Contraception And Nutrition
Bastar & Mumbai: Ratni Kashyap, 20, sat in her courtyard with her 17-day-old newborn, snugly wrapped in a towel, soak...
Why India Does Not Need A Two-Child Law
Jaipur: With fertility rates falling across states, India does not need a law enforcing a two-child norm as sought by a p...
‘1.85m Women May Have Failed To Get An Abortion During Lockdown’
New Delhi: In the first three months of the COVID-19 lockdown, March 25 to June 24, 2020, 47% of the estimated 3.9 millio...
Kota Child Deaths: A Story Of Flailing Primary & Secondary Care, Overstretched Tertiary Care
Doctors and medical staff attend to an infant in the neonatal intensive care unit of Kota’s J K Lon Hospital, which saw...
‘For Children’s Nutrition, Mother’s Education More Important Than Family Wealth’
New Delhi: Cutting across the wealth divide, more than a quarter of Indian children under two years of age who were...
How Karnataka Is Improving Children’s Health By Focusing On Mothers
Ballari, Tumkur and Mysuru: Rekha M, 30, is six months into her second pregnancy and visits the Shankarbande anganwadi...
