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24-Year-Old's Suicide Is A Warning That The Mental Healthcare Bill Needs To Expand Its Scope
The provision that decriminalises suicide in the Mental Health Bill is welcome, however, the absence of a complementary provision requiring educational institutions and employ...
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50 Years Ago This Week: How Birth Control Changed Everything
The subject of this week's cover story cost, as TIME noted, just 11 cents to make per unit—but, in the less than a decade of its existence, it had already "changed and l...
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The Ambitious Mental Healthcare Bill Is A Step Closer To A Progressive India
Breaking away from ‘institutionalised care’, India on March 27, 2017 took a progressive step towards implementing a rights-based approach to safeguarding and prote...
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Poor Access To Support Systems Causes High Mortality Among Women With Burn Injuries
In 1998, India was the only country in the world where fire was among the 15 leading causes of death. Even almost two decades later, incidents of burn-related injuries remain ...
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Contraceptive Usage In Asian Countries
China, South Korea and Thailand are few Asian countries where a high number of people are using contraceptives. In China, there is 83 per cent usage of contraceptives while in...
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A New Kind Of Male Birth Control Is Coming
Doctors are on the cusp of launching the first new male contraceptive in more than a century. But rather than a Big Pharma lab, the breakthrough is emerging from a university ...
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Health Policy Focuses On Expanding Access, Quality: Secy
Expanding access of medical facilities, reducing treatment costs and improving quality are the three major objectives of the recently-released National Health Policy, a top go...
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Parliament Passes Bill That Decriminalises Suicide Attempt By Mentally ill People
Parliament today passed a bill that seeks to decriminalise suicide attempt by mentally ill people and provides for the right to better healthcare for people suffering from. 'T...
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Superpower Dreams: On How India Must Respond To A Low HDI Rank
India’s rank of 131 among 188 countries on the UNDP’s Human Development Index for 2015 and its ‘medium’ performance pose the uncomfortable question: wo...
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Five Reasons Why ‘National Health Policy 2017’ Is A Step In The Right Direction
As we analyse the Indian policy discourse, we find that healthcare financing and service delivery continues to stand out as an exception. Not only does it remain to be one of ...
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