Global health
- Acupuncture, Alternative medicine, Global development, Global health, Health, Health & wellbeing, Homeopathy, India, Life and style, Medical research, Science, Society, South and Central Asia, World Health Organization, World news
‘A potential treasure trove’: World Health Organization to explore benefits of traditional medicines
UN body to study possibility of integrating centuries-old practices into mainstream healthcareFrom herbalists …
- Africa, Americas, Food, Global development, Global health, India, Kenya, Nepal, South and Central Asia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Uganda, Ultra-processed foods, World news
‘One bite and he was hooked’: from Kenya to Nepal, how parents are battling ultra-processed foods
Five families around the world share their struggles to keep their children away from UPFsParents and young pe…
- Global development, Global health, Health, India, Infant and child mortality, Kashmir, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Mongolia, Pastoralism, Society, South and Central Asia, United Nations, Women, World Health Organization, World news
Born in the forest: the women giving birth alone in the Kashmiri mountains
Far from hospitals, nomadic Gujjar women routinely go into labour – and die – on their herder communities’ lon…
- Global development, Global health, Law, Pakistan, Reproductive rights, South and Central Asia, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
The young lawyer taking Pakistan to court over its unfair ‘period tax’
Mahnoor Omer hopes the case will put public pressure on the government to make sanitary products affordable in…
- Delhi, Global development, Global health, Hospitals, India, Narendra Modi, Poverty, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
Free medical cover has revolutionised healthcare in India. So why is it ailing?
Modi’s Ayushman Bharat scheme put hospital treatment within reach of tens of millions of Indians for the first…
- Employment, Environment, Ethical and green living, Fashion, Garment workers, Global development, Global health, India, Life and style, Recycling, South and Central Asia, Waste, World news
Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick
Reports of lung disease, skin conditions and even cancer are rising in Panipat, which recycles 1 million tonne…
- Cervical cancer, Global development, Global health, Health, HPV vaccine, Pakistan, Society, South and Central Asia, Vaccines and immunisation, Women's health, World news
‘One jab will do the job’: Pakistan begins rollout of HPV vaccine to millions of girls
Despite vaccination hesitancy, the end may be in sight for cervical cancer, which kills 64% of women with the …
- Education, Environment, Food, Foraging, Global development, Global health, Health & wellbeing, India, Indigenous peoples, Life and style, Nutrition, School meals, Schools, South and Central Asia, Stunting, World news
Fish mint, Himalayan chives and berry pickle: how wild ingredients are transforming school dinners in India
In the remote state of Meghalaya, foraged foods are helping to diversify state-provided menus – and tackle chr…
- Afghanistan, Global development, Global health, Health, Infant and child mortality, Infectious diseases, Malaria, Malnutrition, Polio, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Trump administration, US foreign policy, USAid, Women, World Health Organization, World news
Millions of Afghans lose access to healthcare services as USAID cuts shut clinics
Fears of surge in malnutrition, measles, malaria and polio as 206 World Health Organization facilities forced …
- Afghanistan, Global development, Global health, Human rights, Law, Society, South and Central Asia, Women under the Taliban, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babies
The need for women to be accompanied by a man in public is blocking access to healthcare and contributing to s…
- Global development, Global health, Health, HPV vaccine, India, Society, South and Central Asia, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
India trains thousands of medics to promote vaccine in huge push to end cervical cancer
Vast scheme aims to counter disinformation and increase awareness in country where low HPV vaccine take-up mea…
- Global development, Global health, Health, LGBTQ+ rights, Pakistan, Society, South and Central Asia, Transgender, Tuberculosis, World news
Shunned and shamed, Pakistan’s trans community finally gets help for TB
Often forced into sex work, trans people are at higher risk of tuberculosis but face abuse when they seek trea…
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Light at the end of the tunnel: mobile TB screenings give Pakistan’s miners a fighting chance
Those who work underground in mines have a high rate of tuberculosis, but they risk losing their job if they t…
- Climate crisis, Employment, Environment, Extreme heat, Global development, Global health, India, Social protection, South and Central Asia, Workers' rights, World news
‘I feel dizzy but I can’t stop’: global heating is already making kiln workers’ lives unbearable. And it will only get worse
Researchers mapped brick kilns across India and used climate models to forecast the levels of heat stress work…
- Afghanistan, Employment, Food security, Global development, Global health, Human rights, Law, Prisons, Sexual violence, Social protection, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Women arrested by Taliban for begging report rape and killings in Afghan jails
Draconian new laws allow mass incarceration of women and children forced to beg because of work banDestitute A…