World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
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Adaptive and inclusive watershed management: assessing policy and institutional support in Kenya
In Kenya, women are the main collectors of water for household needs and are extensively engaged in the agriculture sector which is the most intensive user of freshwater resources through irrigation. Although
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Opportunities for transition to clean household energy: application of the Household Energy Assessment Rapid Tool (HEART) in India
The Household Energy Assessment Rapid Tool (HEART) was developed by WHO and is being pilot-tested for use in conducting rapid situational assessments and stakeholder mapping of a country’s readiness to
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Evaluating the effectiveness of sexual and reproductive health services during humanitarian crises: A systematic review
<p>An estimated 32 million women and girls of reproductive age living in emergency situations, all of whom require sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services. This systematic review
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Study links low vitamin D levels with onset of diabetes
Study focuses on women; first time such research has been conducted in India Women in India are more likely to have vitamin D deficiency, especially those belonging to lower socio-economic groups, a
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Adaptive and inclusive watershed management: assessing policy and institutional support in Uganda
This report explores existing institutional linkages between gender, water and climate change in Uganda. Climate change is affecting water quantity and quality in Uganda and is an emerging major threat
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Accelerate progress—sexual and reproductive health and rights for all: report of the Guttmacher–Lancet Commission
<p>Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are fundamental to people’s health and survival, to economic development, and to the wellbeing of humanity. Several decades of research have shown—and
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De-feminisation of agricultural wage labour in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal
A study of three villages in Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal, reveals that there is an alarming decline in female agricultural wage labour, resulting in de-feminisation, devastating poverty and outmigration
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Study says cardiac disease risk high in Telangana
HYDERABAD: A cardiovascular risk study done for the entire country by researchers of Harvard University along with Population Health Foundation of India revealed that people of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh
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Achieving global targets of ending AIDS epidemic requires political will: India to UN
In India, deaths due to AIDS have been reduced by nearly 55 per cent over the last decade and new HIV infections have been reduced by 66 per cent since 2000. India has said that achieving global targets
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Govt to soon list who can & who can’t donate blood
NEW DELHI: The government is set to streamline the rules for blood donation for safety of both patients and donors. The health ministry is expected to come up with specific donor selection criteria.