It is by now a widely known and accepted fact that air pollution is causing public health crises across the globe. India is no exception. For years the World Health Organisation (WHO) and various other institutions have made note of dangerously high levels of pollutants in and around Indian cities. However, the situation is progressively …
India does not spend enough on healthcare. This is according to reports by The World Bank, which found that India spends just 4.7% of its GDP (private and public spending combined) on healthcare in 2014 – versus a global average of 9.9%. This was also the case for neighbouring countries such as China (5.5%) and …
A social media photo campaign has aimed to raise awareness of mental health disorders and needs in India. The event was organised by the Harvard US-India Initiative. Participants were invited to photograph themselves carrying placards emblazoned with mental health awareness messages and post them online with the hashtag #IndiaStopTheStigma. The campaign speaks to an issue that …
Damning figures publicised at the beginning of December have laid bare the extent of India’s problem with HIV transmission through faulty blood transfusions – believed to have caused 14,474 cases over the last seven years. The information was obtained by IndiaSpend through a series of right to information (RTI) requests. It was published as their …
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Every year, 5.9 million children die before reaching the age of five. Of these, 1.5 million lose their lives to pneumonia and diarrhoea. As shown in a revealing new report, India has more of these deaths than any other country. On November 11, the 2016 Pneumonia and Diarrhea Progress Report was published by the International …
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The Modi administration has pledged massive reforms to healthcare, with its National Health Policy (NHP) being perhaps one of the most ambitious healthcare projects in the world. However, providing adequate healthcare to a population as large as India’s calls for a phenomenal budget. The results of the NHP programme, as well as the Swachh Bharat …
Malaria has been a global scourge for millennia. This is especially true of India. For as long as the country has been an independent nation, malaria has posed a major threat to the health of the nation. In 1947, an estimated 75 million Indians were infected with malaria – more than a fifth of the …
Fight against malaria: is the end in sight for India? Read More »
A market is consistently growing in India for tourists travelling from other nations to take advantage of India’s medical services. Dubbed “medical tourism”, a large number of those travelling to India are from a number of African countries. It is often the case in many African nations that hospitals are ill equipped to deal with …
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The most prevalent mosquito-borne diseases occurring in India are malaria, dengue fever, and chikungunya. Though distributions and severity of each disease vary considerably. It is worth noting that despite high concentrations of each disease in specific regions, due to rainy seasons mosquitos are capable of spreading across the vast majority of India, with only a …
“We can now safely say that we can end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030.” Such were the bold words of Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda during an event to mark World AIDS Day on December 1. Nadda said that India had defied predictions from “around two decades ago” that it would be “the AIDS …
Nadda promises to end HIV; will policy follow suit? Read More »
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