Nipah: A potential Pandemic and a Lot More That We Dont know
Kerala witnessed the second outbreak of Nipah Virus (NiV) this year with a 24-year-old student in Malappuram succumbing to it on September 16, 2024.…
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The Right to Exit Gracefully: The Tales of Living Wills
Despite the Supreme Court’s landmark judgment legalising Living Wills in India, Kerala is currently the only state where these wills are actively signed. In…
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Family Planning: An Unequal Burden On Women
National Family Health Surveys unequivocally demonstrate that the onus of adopting family planning measures is always on women Rajni Murmu was 17 years old when…
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From Rights Of Single Parents To Queer Persons, India’s Surrogacy Law Falls Short Of Expectations
The Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 reinforces the idea of family as a heterosexual and patriarchal institution as it excludes queer persons and unmarried single…
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The Paradox of Kerala Model : Sterilization is a female business.
Declining rate of population growth is a key factor in achieving the goal of poverty eradication. One Indian state that has consistently scored high…
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A PHC in a remote Kerala village shows where there is a will, there is well-being
Fifty-five-year-old Jose Thomas made a living working as a salesman at a spices shop at Mananthavady in Wayanad district of Kerala. In the January…
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Kerala’s tryst with Nipah: A tale of scare, vigilance and tears
In Kerala’s experience, the fatality rate of Nipah was 89 per cent as 17 out 19 infected people succumbed to the virus in 2018.…
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What the piling bodies and helplessness are doing to our overworked health workers
Healthcare workers all over the world are exposed to tremendous levels of risk for anxiety, depression, burnout, insomnia, moral distress and post-traumatic stress disorder.…
Read More How the new abortion law fails to give women the absolute right over their bodies
The new Act gives the right to seek abortion to unmarried women too, as it replaced the term ‘married woman and her husband’ in…
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Baby blues: Why Indians need to be more sensitive to new moms
There is a stage called postpartum depression. A majority of police officers that I talked to have not even heard of this. Those who have…
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