poverty
Afghan mum cradling baby during university exam goes viral
Ahmadi appears a little bemused by the attention triggered by the photo of her cradling baby Khizran during the exam last month.
Indian rural women often late in seeking breast cancer care
It's urgent to have a national breast cancer program in India, while at the local level, awareness needs to be raised about breast cancer.
How the youth, farmers, women are becoming self-reliant in Jharkhand
The efforts are being made in many directions by the government to generate maximum potential for self-employment.
Survival of patients with anal cancer depends on socioeconomic status
Advances in SCCA treatment have boosted survival and cure rates, but benefits are uneven among patients of disparate socioeconomic status.
Child marriages decline in India: UNICEF
When a girl is forced to marry as a child, she faces immediate and lifelong consequences.
Sexual crimes in neighbourhood may harm women's mental health
Feelings about the frequency of rape or other forms of sexual assault in a neighbourhood are significantly tied to women's.
Half of world's people can't get basic health services: WHO
Some 800 million people worldwide spend at least 10 percent of their household income on healthcare.
Ram Rajya means home for all, no poverty, discrimination: Adityanath
Adityanath hit out at critics claiming that there were some who opposed and questioned his actions regardless of what he did.
Bridging the gender gap
Empowering women has been held up as an answer to myriad global problems, starting with poverty.
Govt should focus more on reducing poverty: Panagariya
He says there can be potentially serious conflict between poverty reduction and reduction in inequality.