The adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) in 2015 marked a shift in the global development agenda from the earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) era. SDGs are particularly important for […]
South Asia
Avinash Supe: Violence against doctors cannot be tolerated
Avinash Supe discusses why there has been a spate of attacks against doctors in India and what can be done. […]
Do we need to consider universalising the hepatitis A vaccine in Kerala, India?
Kerala, a state in southern India, has made impressive improvements in its population’s conditions of living. Despite having a low per capita income, its indicators of social development—such as the […]
Aarefa Johari: Why doctors need to speak out against female genital cutting in India
Female circumcision, known around the world as female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM or FGC), is recognised as a human rights violation by the World Health Organisation. It involves cutting […]
Ramya Madhireddi: The underestimated burden of NTDs in India
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of conditions that affect more than a billion people worldwide. With India bearing one of the heaviest burdens of NTDs in the […]
Andrew Jenkinson: The Indian rural surgeon
I pinch my patient’s abdomen with toothed forceps to check his spinal anaesthesia has worked and I feel I should pinch myself. I am about to start an inguinal hernia […]
Madhukar Pai and Nimalan Arinaminpathy: How can India overcome tuberculosis?
India reports more cases of tuberculosis than any other country. This much is well known. However, nobody quite knows the true magnitude of the TB problem in the country. For […]
Pradip Kharya: Delhi’s chikungunya outbreak
In 2006 India experienced one of its worse chikungunya outbreaks, when more than 1.5m cases were reported. The current outbreak in Delhi has claimed at least 15 lives so far, and the city’s […]
Soham D Bhaduri: How we can improve the specialty status of family medicine in India
A few weeks ago I was interviewing Dr Ashoka Prasad, a psychiatrist and campaigner for improving the rights of those with mental illness, for a popular Indian medical news portal, […]
Madhukar Pai: New insights into the tuberculosis problem in India’s private sector
As a result of the overuse or misuse of antibiotics, antimicrobial resistant superbugs represent an extraordinary threat to global health. This threat is particularly great in India, the world’s largest […]