India Together: Clean hands, not soap sales – 08 April 2005
08 April 2005 – It is common knowledge that there is an acute lack of water and sanitation in developing countries; one consequence of this is that people find it…
India Together: The cost of eradicating polio – 07 April 2005
For seven years women and children of the rural districts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have been deprived of essential health services so that the polio eradication campaign could go…
India Together: Epilepsy: defogging the demon – 21 February 2005
Some studies estimate that roughly 10 million Indians may be suffering from epilepsy. But social stigma and economic barriers are keeping treatment out of reach for the majority. Unlike polio,…
India Together: Rural Health Mission has promising goals – 07 February 2005
Rural public health care is choked nationwide for a number of reasons. To name two, provisioning of services is very top heavy and many major programmes continue to be conceived…
India Together: Death knell for low cost medicinesDevinder Sharma – 01 December 2004
Medicine prices nationwide are likely to go up soon, including at public hospitals and dispensaries. Domestic manufacturers will withdraw critical but cheaper medicines as India gets ready to fulfill WTO…
India Together: The pressure for health care – 01 November 2004
These National Human Rights Commission’s hearings on the Right to Healthcare are bringing out hundreds of poor citizens’ experiences of being refused public health care. Gone are the days when…
India Together: The ABC’s of fighting AIDS – 01 November 2004
The main message that is going out to the masses is: use condoms. But this overlooks a fundamental reality about the values contained in that message, says Mirra Savara. 01…
India Together: Blowing back the smoke – 01 October 2004
Reducing tobacco consumption is a multi-dimensional and complex challenge. Varupi Jain reports on an organisation that is lending its VOICE with strong efforts. 01 October 2004 – According to estimates…
India Together: Crippling delivery to the disabled – 01 September 2004
Are tax-payer funded programmes for the empowerment of the disabled working? Until very recently, New Delhi has not even had reliable data to plan its programmes. Himanshu Upadhyaya digs into…
India Together: The unfinished war on polio – 01 September 2004
As new cases of polio are reported in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, health departments scramble to respond quickly. Safia Sircar on a neighbourhood program in Shorpur. 01 September 2004 –…