Poor patients in India facing HIV/AIDS drug shortages

Indian HIV patient Rekha has missed her daily dose of medicine several times over the last few months because the government distribution centre at New Delhi’s Lok Na...

Welfare board for transgenders in Maharashtra

With assembly polls in sight, it’s appeasement time! On Thursday, state cabinet decided to set up a welfare board for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) communit...

True Review: Mary Kom

Critics Rating: 3 Stars*

Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Sunil Thapa, Darshan Kumar,

Direction: Omung Kumar

The 8th Edition of the Green I Contest

Hyderabad, Sept 03, 2014: Young Indians (Yi) is an integral part of the Confederation o...

What Makes Community Health Care Work?

In response to Tuesday’s column about two programs in India that train relatively uneducated women as their villages’ health workers, readers provided an avalan...

A ‘Pehal’ initiative of United Technologies and United Way of Delhi

Drainage development, bank account openings & exhibition-cum-sale of hand-made products at the community of migrant labourers in Chakarpur village, Gurgaon

Male Rickshaw Drivers Playing Key Role In Maternal Health Campaign In India

ODISHA, India (WOMENSENEWS)–As the auto rickshaws begin lining up inside the compound at 7 a.m., Vijaylakmi Sahu knows she has just 30 minutes to finish her work. Ove...

UK?s winter floods strengthen belief humans causing climate change

Britons say they are more convinced climate is changing and that humans are the main cause More than a quarter of people say UK?s winter floods strengthened their belief in...

ATM Machine Helps Indian Women Quietly Report Rape Without Going To The Police

In December, a 16-year-old girl in Calcutta was burned alive. Authorities believe she was targeted as punishment for reporting her gang-rape to the police. Two months earli...