healthcare

The pandemic has set India back in its goal to eliminate tuberculosis by 2025. From the Nikshay Poshan Yojana to renewed testing and treatment efforts, here's how we can cover lost ground.

A study from rural Andhra Pradesh finds that the answer might lie in changing dietary habits combined with a shift to cultivating less labour-intensive crops.

Unemployment in India rose sharply during the pandemic, as did the number of billionaires. What does the privatisation of public goods have to do with growing inequality in the country?

An analysis of Ayushman Bharat (PMJAY), India’s flagship public health insurance scheme—what it promised, what it has achieved, and the way forward.

An ASHA worker from Haryana talks about the challenges of rural healthcare, the need for an efficient public health system, and the caste–class nexus within which health workers operate.

Four lessons from civil society’s response to the second wave of COVID-19 that can help us prepare for future disasters.

While the issues of discrimination in health access are systemic and require interventions by governments to solve them, there is much that civil society can do.

Despite its promise of universal healthcare for Indians, the scheme has been unable to provide quality health services to eligible patients and protect them from financial hardship.

World Suicide Prevention Day | We need to recognise that suicide is a societal failure. To change this, we need policy makers, people, and the media to collaborate.

Blended finance can improve the quality of India's spending on healthcare and education; and bring the country closer to achieving its development goals.