Category Archives: Health
India Made Significant Improvement In Tackling HIV
India has made remarkable progress in combating HIV/AIDS over the last ten years by reducing the overall exposure to this killer disease by 50 per cent, says a global report issued by a U.N. agency on the epidemic. Besides, the Indian drug companies played a vital role in supplying the first-line drugs for HIV/AIDS patients in […]
Underfed: The Other Young India
The Integrated Child Development Ser vices (ICDS), a scheme launched by the gov ernment in 1975, was meant to address the health and nutritional needs of women and children. But the high prevalence of child malnutrition is a severe indictment of it The mid-day meal scheme, along with the ICDS and a strong public distribution […]
Why The Valley Blooms
Across Kashmir, tens of thousands of young men and women who have failed to cope with the cumulative effects of trauma in their daily lives are escaping to drug abuse and alcoholism. The student community that has come about amid the continuing socio-political disturbance and violence in Kashmir is the worst hit. De-addiction counsellors estimate […]
Why Women Should Not Hold On
BY ATRAY BANAN From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 7, Issue 29, Dated July 24, 2010. India’s urban women — both rich and poor, by the way — face many problems around their toilet routines, but the dilemma of preserving their dignity is often in the forefront.
India has highest prevalence of underweight kids: Study
India has highest prevalence of underweight children under five and the level of hunger there is “alarming” as the country ranks 67, out of 84 countries, on the Global Hunger Index, a new study has found.
More hungry in India than in Sudan
India dropped two ranks to 67th among 84 developing countries in the International Food Policy Research Institute’s annual ” Global Hunger Index” for 2010. Even Sudan, North Korea and Pakistan rank higher than India.
Activists decry India-EU IPR talks
Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+) is staging a mass demonstration in front of Udyog Bhavan on Wednesday to protest against the inclusion of intellectual property (IP) provisions in the EU-India free trade agreement (FTA) which they fear will affect people’s access to affordable HIV/AIDS drugs.
No gender-based difference in response to HIV treatment
A new study has found that men and women react to anti-HIV drugs in a similar way.The study demonstrated it is possible to recruit large numbers of women into a clinical trial evaluating treatments for HIV infection and found no significant gender-based differences in response to the anti-HIV drugs darunavir and ritonavir – at least […]
New approach to fight HIV could spur vaccine development
By preventing shape-shifting in a key segment of protein from HIV, the immune system can be primed to develop antibodies against the virus, which in turn could pave way for an AIDS vaccine.
By 2021, Indians will live 6 years more, says govt
By 2021, an average Indian will live around six years more than he or she did in 2001. According to the Union health ministry’s latest projections, the life expectancy at birth (LEB)—the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year—of an Indian male will be 69.8 […]