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BMC, MDACS Join Hands To Eliminate New HIV Cases

Building on the success of the Pulse Polio programme, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has begun work on total eradication of new HIV cases and aims to achieve ...

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When Alphabet Fails, Technology Succeeds

We had a tough time telling the family of a high risk pregnant woman to take special care of her and register for delivery at the district hospital. Despite repeated cautio...

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Rich Mom, Poor Mom: Growing Gap In Global Access To Maternal Health Care

Less than six miles separate the crowded public hospital in an industrial district where Emilie Kabala gave birth from the gleaming private clinic in the tree-lined suburb ...

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Theatre in the jungle Nook

My recent trip to Tadoba turned out to be more than exceptional, not only wildlife-wise but I also got an introduction to a whole new world of theatre. The four eastern dis...

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Polio Torch In Nigeria, As India Pledges Assistance

With Nigeria now in the eighth month since the last recorded infection of poliovirus, a global End Polio Now Torch has reached the country to help raise funds against the v...

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Widowed Before They’re Old Enough To Marry, Life Is A Battle For These Girls

Shanti Dhakad of Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district got married when she was 13. Six years later, her husband died in an accident, forcing the illiterate Dhakad into ma...

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Traditions, Society And Healthcare- Taking A Look At Community Health Issues

It was a cool afternoon in the winter of 1990. We were walking toward a remote village on a dirt road through a forest. It was a voyage of delightful discovery of flora...

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Hospital deliveries up, yet 6.5k maternal deaths in Bihar every year

PATNA: That the graph of institutional deliveries is going up every year in the state notwithstanding, a recent study says most of the maternal deaths are taking at home. T...

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Hema Malini launches UP's First Water ATM

Film actress and local Member of Parliament Hema Malini on Monday launched Uttar Pradesh’s first water dispensing ATM at Sonkh town in Mathura district. Addressing a ...

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Jammu and Kashmir flood: Two Houses Sink, 16 Feared Trapped; 100 NDRF Personnel Rushed To Valley

People in Jammu and Kashmir were advised to move to safety on Monday morning after the state government declared flood following incessant rainfall. The meteorological depa...

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