India Together: The ability debates – 22 February 2008
Quite a few debates are currently raging in the disability rights movement. Special schools or inclusive education, community based rehabilitation or institutionalised rehabilitation, job reservations or none – Prasanna Kumar…
India Together: Study: India sitting on tobacco epidemic – 20 February 2008
Within in the next two years, around 10 lakh people will die because of smoking in India alone, says one of the most comprehensive studies on the habit in the…
India Together: Fit to drive – 11 February 2008
The Indian Epilepsy Association has been working to ensure revisions in various laws to reflect advances in the management of epilepsy, and also our improved knowledge of its risks. Varupi…
India Together: Tripura aims for total immunisation – 06 January 2008
From drum beating at markets to using helicopters, Tripura has been making rapid strides in its immunisation programme, pushing this important health care intervention among tribal as well as non-tribal…
India Together: When it comes to HIV, all women are at risk – 01 December 2007
The expression ‘women at risk’ can no longer be used to describe only those engaged in sex work, and that strategies to address women’s vulnerability to HIV must therefore take…
India Together: HIV: Looking beyond numbers – 01 December 2007
Debates on HIV estimates often take time away from the real issues – those that can only be shared by people infected and affected by the infection. The issue that…
India Together: Steep health costs pushing farmers to the brink – 24 October 2007
Rising health costs are proving disastrous for Vidarbha’s farmers already under severe distress. Debt due to spiraling medical expenditures is worse than the illness itself for many, and the state…
India Together: Attitudes to sex need healthy injection of science – 12 October 2007
Why would the Government of India deny a job to an individual who carries a mutation in the DNA? There is prejudice in the Indian society against individual perceived as…
India Together: Laureates meet: reminder to shackled Indian sciences – 03 September 2007
In July, 18 Nobel laureates met with over 500 young scientists from around the world in Germany. India sent 22 researchers. The meeting threw up many questions pertaining to the…
India Together: Will open defecation end by 2012? – 26 July 2007
The short answer appears to be no. Some 4,959 villages have bagged the Nirmal Gram Puraskar (clean village prize) so far, for having flush toilets in every household and school.…