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REPORT ON GARBH-INi INITIATIVE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN IMPROVING MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IN INDIA

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The GARBH-INi initiative is a government-led program that uses advanced research, AI, and indigenous data to predict and prevent preterm births, improving maternal and child health outcomes in India. It combines science, technology, and collaboration to create more effective, population-specific healthcare solutions. Introduction Maternal and child health has remained a critical area of national health…

Certified Clean: Assessment Architecture of Urban Sanitation

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India’s urban sanitation has shifted from building infrastructure to performance-based governance under Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) 2.0, using assessments and certifications to ensure accountability. While this improves monitoring and outcomes, challenges like inequality, sustainability, and long-term service delivery still persist. Over the past ten years, India’s urban sanitation system has experienced a dramatic shift from…

NITI Aayog and UNICEF Join Hands to Boost Maternal and Child Nutrition in India’s Aspirational Districts

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NITI Aayog and UNICEF have partnered to improve maternal and child nutrition in India’s Aspirational Districts and Blocks through better healthcare delivery, awareness campaigns, and CSR-funded nutrition initiatives. The collaboration will also strengthen Anganwadi infrastructure, enhance ICDS services, and build the capacity of frontline workers to improve nutrition outcomes in underserved regions. India has taken…

Untangling India’s Development Gridlock

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Anyone who has worked in India’s development sector for a significant period will recognise a familiar pattern. Across states and districts, the landscape is crowded with organisations trying their best to solve difficult problems, yet most of them do so in isolation. The intent is strong, the commitment is real, but the way programmes are…

ASHA workers distributing sanitary pads and teaching menstrual hygiene to adolescent girls in India

India’s Growing Menstrual Health Effort: Small Steps, Real Change

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Menstrual health has traditionally remained a silent subject in India. Girls have, over the years, been taught to maintain their cycle in silence without much guidance, clean toilets, or affordable products to cope with them. But over the last few years, something gentle and hopeful has begun to shift. Through a spate of government programmes,…

Children’s Day and World Diabetes Day awareness highlighting rising childhood diabetes in India

Celebrating with a Purpose: Children’s Day Meets World Diabetes Day

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November 14 in India holds double significance. It is both Children’s Day — honouring Jawaharlal Nehru’s affection for children, and World Diabetes Day, a global call to awareness on diabetes. According to a recent article in the The Financial Express, this alignment is more than symbolic, it is an urgent reminder that diabetes is no…

Drs. Lalitha Regi and Regi George at the Tribal Health Initiative in Sittilingi Valley, recipients of the 2025 Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity

Healing at the Grassroots: Drs. Lalitha Regi and Regi George Win McGill’s 2025 Paul Farmer Award

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On 7 November 2025, McGill University’s Global Health Programs and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences announced that Drs. Lalitha Regi and Regi George, co-founders of the Tribal Health Initiative (THI) in Tamil Nadu, India, are the 2025 co-recipients of the Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity. The award is named after the…

A CRUEL HUNGER PROBLEM

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Photo Credit: Unicef Clear Cut Health DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 24, 2025 03:15 ISTWritten By: Janmojaya Barik India can strive to be a world economic power, but one hard reality still haunts its progress, which is that millions of women and children are still going hungry in ways we do not always notice. The National…

CIDSCON 2025 : India’s Battle Against Drug-Resistant Infections

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Photo Credit: Internet Clear Cut Health DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 17, 2025 12:35 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal India is facing an emerging public health crisis in the form of drug resistant infections, making treatable diseases even more difficult, and in many cases, deadly. During the 15th Annual Conference of the Clinical Infectious Disease Society (CIDSCON…