Expanding coverage by ushering in the private sector results in inequities in access, argue Ramya Kumar and Anne-Emanuelle Birn […]
South Asia
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 […]
Veena Rao: India’s National Nutrition Mission—a missed opportunity
India needs to bridge the population’s dietary and information deficit if it wants to end malnutrition […]
Free breast alteration surgery in India’s Tamil Nadu: Is there a case for public funding?
Prioritising cosmetic surgery is debatable given the many critical unmet health needs among women […]
Poonam Khetrapal Singh: The South East Asia region must succeed in tackling TB
Tackling tuberculosis in South East Asia will mean stepped up efforts globally, as well as from countries within the region […]
Manpreet Singh Khurmi and Muhammed Shaffi: The deaths of children in hospital in India
In August this year, the deaths of over 300 children were reported from the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College, a large tertiary care centre in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India—with […]
Kanchan Mukherjee: Bridging the gap between India’s researchers and policy makers on NCDs
Research institutes have an important role in addressing India’s NCD burden […]
Implementing best practice guidance for management of older people with hip fractures in India
Fragility hip fractures are likely to become a major public health challenge in the coming decades, as emerging economies with vast populations age. Half of the estimated 6.26 million hip […]