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Medical stigmatisation of LGBTIQ people: An interview with Dr Sameera Jahagirdar

October 23, 2019 By Nicholas Parry Leave a Comment

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Medical textbooks in India have been found to contain outdated principles citing homosexuality as a pathological disorder. Such information could be enshrining this way of thinking into a new generation of doctors, leading to poor health outcomes in the LGBTIQ community as a result of discrimination. Dr Sameera Mahamud Jahagirdar, Assistant Professor at the Department […]

Filed Under: Access to Healthcare, Featured, Featured Story, Interviews, Social issues Tagged With: stigma

Archaic laws holding back leprosy eradication

August 28, 2019 By Nicholas Parry Leave a Comment

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In 2018, then-Union Health Minister J P Nadda promised the eradication of leprosy by the end of the year. This aim was clearly not achieved, with cases of leprosy seeming to be in resurgence. Now, Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has set about a far more realistic goal — the elimination of archaic laws forcing […]

Filed Under: Featured, Government policy, Infectious diseases, News, Social issues Tagged With: Leprosy, stigma

Hugging away mental health stigma

June 7, 2019 By Nicholas Parry Leave a Comment

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Some 150 million Indians live with some manner of mental health issue. Despite this significant burden, stigma against mental illness not only exists: it is common. One group plans on changing this attitude, one hug at a time.   Launched in Mumbai in October 2017, the Hugging Club of India (HCI) provides sessions which offer […]

Filed Under: Access to Healthcare, Featured, News, Noncommunicable diseases, Social issues Tagged With: Depression, stigma

Underwear, stigma, and the risk of disease

May 28, 2019 By Nicholas Parry Leave a Comment

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When thinking of infections, one of the the last things that immediately comes to mind is lingerie. However, stigma regarding women’s sexuality and menstrual hygiene may be leading to a heightened risk of infection owing to women’s underwear, according to gynaecologists and epidemiologists. Though an odd correlation, there is a specific alteration to behaviour that […]

Filed Under: Featured, Infectious diseases, National, News, Social issues Tagged With: stigma, women's health

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