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‘Same-Sex Attraction Is Ok’ – Health Ministry’s New Manual For Children All Over India

“Boys should understand that when a girl says ‘no’ it means no,” reads the manual that India’s Health Ministry is now handing out across the c...

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All Aboard The Science Express – India’s Only Climate Change Train Is Here!

As the mild Indian Winter creeps into the not-so-mild Indian Summer, once again the topic of global warming becomes entirely too relevant. With international summits, a con...

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Gender

Homosexuality And Periods On The Governments Minds As It Launches 'Saathiya' Health Kit For Adolescents In India

The health ministry has turned its attention, and laudably so, to the 253 million adolescents growing up in contemporary India, many of whom are struggling to find answers ...

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Health

India Needs A Multi-Payer System

For most developing economies, a single public healthcare financing system is unlikely to effectively cover the entire population The 2017 Union budget presented some major...

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Health

How Mobile Technology Is Transforming Lives In Rural India

Health Ministry's latest move seeks to start productive conversations around homosexuality, sex, consent, mental health among other things. In what comes as an unusual-yet-...

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Health

How Mobile Technology Is Transforming Lives In Rural India

Deep in a rural village in India outside the city of Jhansi, children play on dirt roads where goats and cows roam. The humble and colorful homes have mud floors, and women...

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Human Rights

Whopping 1,71,083 Child Marriages Across Andhra In 2015-16

Krishna district topped the list of child marriages as 20,584 girls married below their legal age in 2015-16 out of the total 1,71,083 child marriages in the state, accordi...

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Health

Here’s Why India Is Struggling And Failing To Control Tuberculosis

TB is continuing to devastate lives in India because of the government’s inability to regulate an exploitive private health sector, and to fill gaps in the supply of ...

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Gender

Melinda Gates: I Wouldn't Be Where I Am Today Without Contraceptives

Growing up in a Catholic household in Texas, I never would have guessed that I would one day travel around the world talking about the benefits of contraceptives. I certain...

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Health

Health Stories From Rural India

The rise of witch doctors, quacks and unregistered allopathic doctors as a result of an inadequate health infrastructure is not incidental is a point made by a Bilaspur-bas...

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