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South Asia
Ananda Bandyopadhyay: Why India’s triumph against polio sets the stage for global polio eradication
My life’s work has been driven by my hatred of the poliovirus, which cripples those who are the most treasured among us: children. In 2011, more than two decades after […]
The UN’s Political Declaration on the fight against Tuberculosis must be operationalized to rapid effect
In the WHO South-East Asia Region, the fight against TB has reached a critical phase. Financing within countries must be streamlined, and global investment forthcoming […]
We need to do more to manage the mental health needs of patients with TB in India
Mental health issues and tuberculosis (TB) are two intertwined, though often invisible, co-epidemics that people in India aren’t talking about enough. Though often mentioned in passing, public health systems are […]
Paul Simpson and Anita Jain: Emergency measures alone won’t stop New Delhi from choking
Delhi’s air pollution problem requires sustained and longer term solutions […]
Violence against doctors in India: Treatment can no longer be about “us and them”
If we want to end violence against doctors we need to change the attitudes of healthcare providers and the patient community towards one another, say Manjul Tripathi and Nishant Yagnick […]
Universal health coverage can best be achieved by public systems
Expanding coverage by ushering in the private sector results in inequities in access, argue Ramya Kumar and Anne-Emanuelle Birn […]
Prescription only access to antibiotics could exacerbate health inequalities in LMICs
One standardised solution to antimicrobial resistance will not be appropriate across all settings, say Mishal S Khan and colleagues […]
Kanchan Mukherjee: Bedaquiline for multidrug resistant TB in India—at what cost?
The decline of TB in the developed world began long before the discovery of TB drugs. This is an important lesson for India, says Kanchan Mukherjee […]
Richard Smith: A cholera epidemic
Most doctors in high income countries have never seen a case of cholera, but if they were to spend a day in the hospital of the icddr,b (formerly known as the […]