Nepa: Malnutrition rife in country’s breadbasket
22 Sep 2009
Nepal’s food-insecure hill and mountain villages are not the only areas where malnutrition is rife...

Bangladesh: Rural mothers lack awareness of malnutrition risks
22 Sep 2009
Rural mothers in Bangladesh lack adequate knowledge about malnutrition risk factors, say experts.

Violence against mothers in Bangladesh
27 Aug 2009
Almost half of Bangladeshi women with young children experience violence from their husbands, and their children appear to have a higher risk of recent respiratory infections and diarrhea, according...

Nepal Radio breaks taboos
27 Aug 2009
Ignoring social taboos in this conservative nation, a Nepali radio program on safe sex is spreading awareness against HIV/AIDS and offers life-saving advice to young people who are vulnerable to the...

Fun or Nuisance
27 Aug 2009
It’s the same old story every day...

Bangladesh: Improve reproductive health service for RMG workers
03 Aug 2009
Speakers at a seminar yesterday stressed the need for improving reproductive health services for garment workers.

Sri Lanka: Reproductive Health Care Best in South Asia, says New World Bank Report
03 Aug 2009
Sri Lanka outpaces Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan in achieving broad coverage of Reproductive Health Services, says a New World Bank report titled “Sparing Lives...

Reproductive health awareness must for Pakistan
03 Aug 2009
World Population Foundation (WPF), Pakistan concluded a three-day training for the master trainers on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) education for adolescent girls and boys here in...

Pakistan: Drug addiction posing serious threat
06 Jul 2009
Reports say the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) has estimated that there are about 5 million drug addicts in Pakistan, and that the invasion of drugs is affecting younger people in the country.

India: Government open to rethink on gay rights issue
06 Jul 2009
A day before Delhi High Court pronounces its verdict on the validity of Section 377 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) that makes homosexuality a criminal offence, the governement on Wednesday refused to sp...

India: Gay sex decriminalised
06 Jul 2009
In a historic judgement, a two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice Murlidharan has decriminalised non-heterosexual sex between consenting adults.

Fertility rate reduced in Nepal
17 Jun 2009
New research shows that Marie Stopes International (MSI) outreach teams in Nepal played a pivotal role in helping to dramatically reduce the country’s fertility rate.

Condom use peaking
17 Jun 2009
Condom use has peaked in Sri Lanka but sales of oral birth control methods such as emergency contraceptives are rising, the island’s top marketer of family planning services said.

Displaced women in Kathmandu
17 Jun 2009
Thousands of men and women, displaced by 10 years of civil war, are destitute in Kathmandu, but it is the women who are particularly vulnerable.

Self immolation is the worst
17 Jun 2009
Attempts to set oneself on fire (self-immolation) are an extreme reaction often practiced by desperate women who lack access to justice and protection.

Foul air hits below the belt
17 Jun 2009
Two-decade study reveals link between male infertility and vehicle pollution

Sex Workers in Goa More Likely to End Life
10 Jun 2009
Young girls pushed into prostitution in Goa are more likely to think about suicide or attempt to commit suicide as compared to their counterparts..

In Nepal one woman dies every four hours from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. And the presence of a midwife could save many of them.
01 Jun 2009
Attendants policy in July 2006 as a part of the overall strategy to reduce the maternal death by 75% (from 539/100,000 Live Births in 2001 to 114/100,000 Live Births in 2015).

PAKISTAN: Urgent need for better family planning - experts
01 Jun 2009
"It started off on a very promising note," agreed Talat Rizvi, the brains behind the programme. "But as with all programmes, this too was hijacked

Pakistan: Sex Workers Give Recommendations on HIV Prevention to Health Officials
25 May 2009
Although the recorded HIV prevalence in Pakistan is relatively low, health officials are concerned that a concentrated epidemic of the virus among injection drug users could carry over to commercial...