Family Planning and Reproductive Health

More than 222 million women worldwide want to avoid pregnancy, but are not using a modern method of contraception. Enabling couples to determine whether, when and how often...

Software to review maternal deaths to be launched in 4 dists

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will implement maternal death review (MDR) software as a pilot project in Srinagar, Kulgam, and Jammu, Ramban districts. The...

National Seminar on Tribal Health Issues

More than a decade of research has shown that small and affordable measures can significantly reduce the health risks that women face when they become pregnant. Most matern...

Conditions caused due to poor sanitation the reason for large number of maternal and newborn deaths

Lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene in birth settings is killing mothers and newborns in the developing world, shows a new study. In a flagship paper, 16 researchers...

India to track toilet use with tablets

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is launching a nationwide online programme to check whether people are using toilets as part of his cleanliness drive. From next month, officia...

Why is the World aiming for Sustainability?

To decide the narrative for this article has been quite a task. There are so many approaches to address the issue at hand, I could have been the cynic and looked back on al...

Danny Glover: Ferguson Part of Historic Violence Against Black Men

Danny Glover is addressing ongoing protests over the deaths of African American men at the hands of police officers.

“The only thing that I think is important...