Day after day our screens are filled with harrowing images of hospitals overrun, lines of people waiting desperately for a hospital bed or oxygen for a loved one. As the number of cases keeps climbing, the threat inches ever closer to home, family memb…
March 2020. India had recently completed a massive vaccination campaign of more than 300 million children against measles and rubella – two potentially life-threatening diseases. I was posted to New York for a health communications assignment which inv…
MUMBAI – Around 230 million Indians fell into poverty due to the pandemic last year with young people and women the hardest hit, and the current …
The coronavirus pandemic caused more poverty in India than China, according to a study released Friday by the US think-tank Pew Research Center.
This, too, accounts for nearly 60 per cent of the global increase in poverty. Perhaps not surprisingly, media reports in India point to a spike in …
This will reduce the poverty in India and increase the economy of the nation. The second team members namely Prathik N and Ricky Rodger prepared a …
With rising poverty and unemployment, along with school closures, they are at a higher risk of being trafficked, both within the borders and across the …
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed many new stressors and strains on parents, as they find themselves juggling with home-schooling, caring for children and loved ones, potential financial and job insecurity as well as dealing with their own mental health…
‘Poverty leaves no choice’. The report is based on field research and over 85 interviews in Tamil Nadu, Haryana, and Delhi, including with women …
The data, released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), shows …
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