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Roadmap for tribal health
Tribal communities in India account for 8.6% of the country’s total population but are lagging far behind non-tribal communities in several health indices.
| 9 April 2021 2:30 AM GMT
Tribal communities in India account for 8.6% of the country s total population but are lagging far behind non-tribal communities in several health indices. This calls for prioritising the task of building resilience of tribal people against COVID-19 and other pandemics through improvement in health system in tribal areas. The country s northeast region has the highest concentration of tribal people that has given the region a unique identity of a melting pot of diverse cultures, languages, and ethnicity. Tribal population in the region accounts for 12% of the total tribal population in the country. Poor healthcare infrastructure and shortage of required human resources in tribal-dominated states in the region and elsewhere in the country speak volume of the critical g
Chief Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde asked last month why women had been “kept” at the farmers’ protests and praised Supreme Court advocate AP Singh (a man with a record of victim-blaming and support for honour crimes) for giving an assurance that women would be sent home and kept out of the protests.
As an Indian woman, these developments fill me with a sense of foreboding and panic. Chouhan and Bobde are men with immense power, who do not feel obligated to listen to the voices of women. Their whims carry the weight of authority.
We need to tell these powerful and influential men: Women are not a “problem” for which confinement and surveillance are the “solution”. Women are not “things” owned by men, which need to be “protected” from theft or damage.
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Dowries are wealth transfers from the bride’s family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. Despite being illegal, dowry payments in India are widespread and often amount to several times more than a household’s annual income (Anderson 2007). Previous studies have linked dowries to gender-based violence, such as sex-selective abortion (Alfano 2017, Bhalotra et al. 2020), bride burning, dowry deaths, and other forms of intimate partner violence (Bloch and Rao 2002, Menon 2020). It has also been shown that higher dowries can increase women’s decision-making power in their marital families (Zhang and Chan 1999, Brown 2009, Calvi and Keskar 2020b).
India’s Covid-19 vaccination drive may derail its mother-child immunisation programme
As sytems are diverted for Covid-19, they may get too strained to handle the routine immunisation programmes, warn experts. Mar 04, 2021 · 01:30 pm India’s immunisation programme for 12 diseases, which targets 2.67 crore infants and 2.9 crore mothers, is one of the world’s largest. | Reuters/ Amit Dave
India’s Covid-19 vaccination target of delivering up to
50 crore doses by July, which is largely piggy-backing on the country’s existing routine immunisation programme, may strain the system, public health professionals warn.
India’s
largest. The country has also started the world’s
largest Covid-19 immunisation programme this year. Both these programmes are being implemented in parallel, using much of the