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Signs of the times: Death and Destruction

Humra Quraishi recalls Saadat Hasan Manto in the month of his birth, and imagines what he would have said and written in these...

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Health

A star is born on a boat during COVID-19 lockdown

As the Dhemaji medical team proceeded to conduct a health camp at Pakhoriguri sapori (island village) they are stopped by a few villagers, &ldq...

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Health

Building a Strong Health Workforce around the World

Health is the natural form of well-being. There is no doubt that still too many people around the world are unable to access even the most basi...

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Health

ASHA workers can play a Significant Role in managing Non-communicable Diseases

India is a country where quality health care remains a privilege of the rich and influential. But a silent army of women, clad in pink sarees, ...

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Business and Politics

Need for a New Social Contract to Guard the Rising Inequality

Mankind has always been afraid of where its talent for innovation might lead. John Maynard Keynes warned in 1930 of widespread unemployment ari...

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Human Rights

This Mother’s Day Help the Moms in Crisis

Last Sunday was Mother's Day. You would probably know about it, thanks to the zillion social media posts that w...

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Health

Global Studies Reveal Health Financing Crisis Facing Developing Countries

Two major studies published in The Lancet reveal the health financing crisis facing developing countries as a result of low domestic investment and stagnating international...

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Hollywood

David Furnish - Leave No One Behind In The Fight Against AIDS

David Furnish has written an article in the Independent, urging the world to leave no one behind in the fight against AIDS. People who Inject Drugs are one of the key popul...

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Sustainable Development

India Slashes Health Budget, Already Among World's Lowest:

The government has ordered a cut of nearly 20 percent in its 2014/15 healthcare budget due to fiscal strains, putting at risk key disease control initiatives in a country w...

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Health

Helping Children, Despite Death Threats: A Vaccinator Explains

When my translator and I arrive in a crowded, dusty neighborhood in Karachi, Fatima Noor is waiting in a full black burqa. But she pretends not to see us. She turns down th...

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