India Together: Clubbing to combat HIV – 06 August 2005
In Andhra’s Khammam district, awareness clubs are bringing conversations about AIDS into the open, and roping in the volunteer spirit of young people to hold the line against a potential…
India Together: Wake up call for HIV/AIDS in U.P. – 05 August 2005
Official statistics are putting Uttar Pradesh firmly as one of India’s low prevalence states for HIV/AIDS, even though stories from village after village show the disease making its way in.…
India Together: Remote adivasis face health care chasm – 25 July 2005
Despite crores of rupees having been spent in name of tribal and other development programmes in one block of Palakkad district in Kerala, the region suffers from poor access to…
India Together: Living in a gray zone – 24 July 2005
24 July 2005 – Childhood, we tell ourselves, should be that blissful state of innocence and joy, but this is often not the case for children who are disabled. I…
India Together: Bringing hope to the rural disabled – 24 June 2005
24 June 2005 – Sanu Ghosh was around one and a half years old when a visit to SSKM Hospital in Kolkata to treat an attack of pneumonia saw him…
India Together: Mental health care needs help – 23 June 2005
23 June 2005 – The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that 450 million people worldwide are affected by mental, neurological or behavioural problems at any time. Furthermore, according to the…
India Together: Snuffed out on screen – 22 June 2005
Smoking in the movies fosters a culture that encourages young people to smoke, whereas what is needed is that we actively develop antipathy to smoking! More than the health effects…
India Together: Global leadership, empty stomachs – 04 June 2005
Newspaper and television reports leave us thinking that India is poised to become a superpower, but a more wholesome measure of where the country is will paint a different picture.…
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…