India among worst-hit
20 Jun 2008
The world is short by 4.3 million health workers with India being one of the six South East Asian countries facing the brunt of this acute shortage.
Ban marriages between children below 18 years of age: Panel
23 Apr 2008
The Law Commission has proposed that child marriage below 18 years of age for both girls and boys should be prohibited and that marriages below the age of 16 years be made void.
India:Sex-test medics to face the heat
23 Apr 2008
The Punjab government has decided to tighten the noose around doctors as well as registered practitioners of homeopathy and ayurveda who guarantee the birth of a son.
India is world's TB capital
23 Apr 2008
Over six lakh Indians, unaware that they suffer from tuberculosis, are spreading the disease among healthy individuals, seriously jeopardizing global efforts to halve new infection and death rates b...
Teen pregnancy threat to mankind
23 Apr 2008
A World Health Organisation (WHO) academic has branded unwanted teenage pregnancies following bouts of binge drinking the "greatest threat to mankind", saying that it is contributing to the world's ...
Ex-bandits shoot blanks to avoid baby boom
07 Apr 2008
In an area of India notorious for untamed outlaw activity, an innovative health campaign is using the local citizens' longstanding love affair with guns to battle overpopulation
Male fertility 'set in the womb'
07 Apr 2008
Male fertility problems are determined in the womb, research from the University of Edinburgh suggests.
Women take sex education to madarsa
28 Mar 2008
Women’s empowerment is getting a new resonance in an underdeveloped Bihar district...
Sri Lanka in the forefront of controlling TB and AIDS
28 Mar 2008
Sri Lanka is in the forefront of controlling not only TB but also AIDS. Five out of 22 countries in the world where TB has heavily spread are in South East Asia and one of them is India
South Asian people could face displacement
28 Mar 2008
Greenpeace alerted the Indian government and people of the subcontinent to the massive humanitarian crisis the South Asian region could face if global warming was not kept below the 2 degree tipping...
Women and local governance
28 Mar 2008
The first-ever all-India A.C. Neilsen ORG MARG survey evaluating the impact of 10...
Tracking maternal mortality
28 Mar 2008
Researchers from India and the United Kingdom have developed an inexpensive surveillance system for measuring maternal mortality, which could eventually guide policymakers in protecting maternal hea...
HIV affected in Orissa to receive monthly pension
18 Mar 2008
In a significant, albeit token gesture, the impoverished eastern Indian state becomes perhaps the first state to offer monthly benefits of this nature to people living with HIV/AIDS.
Depressed teen mothers likely to have another baby
18 Mar 2008
Teenage mothers who suffer from depression are more likely to get pregnant again than their non-depressed counterparts, according to research published today
State to educate eunuchs about AIDS, sexual health
18 Mar 2008
A community shunned by others, abhorred and discriminated against, the Hijras or eunuchs are now among groups with high risk of spreading HIV/AIDS in Bengal.
Teenage pregnancy and child marriage pose threat
18 Mar 2008
Of late World Health Organisation (WHO) academics expressed a great concern in Sydney about teenage pregnancy, which is described as the ‘greatest threat to mankind’, as it contributes to the world’...
Nepali gay men contesting poll
11 Mar 2008
At least five Nepali gay men are contesting this year's elections in the hope of shattering taboos in the conservative nation, a gay candidate said.
Condoms in nation’s service
11 Mar 2008
Condom or Nirodh is one word, which is still not being used in our society openly but with the problem of population bomb looming over India and AIDS control programme, have got wide recognition and...
Microbicides to improve future products and trials
11 Mar 2008
The Population Council announced that the Phase 3 clinical trial of the Council’s candidate microbicide Carraguard® found the product to be safe for vaginal use.
New scheme for girl child
11 Mar 2008
The union government on Monday (3rd March, 08) launched ‘Dhan Laxmi,’ a conditional cash transfer scheme for the girl child.