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Here’s to Fewer Underage Marriages in India in 2013
Laxmi Sargara made history in 2012 when she had her marriage annulled. She and her husband Rakesh are one of the first Indian couples on record to fight against a wedding that took place when they were...
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ICTs in Maternal and Child Health Poised for Scale-Up in Uttar Pradesh, India
This post was originally published on the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s IDEAS blog.Frontline health workers with mobile phones capturing complex data on pregnant women and children,...
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Frontline Health Workers' Key Role in Improving Nutrition
Note: This post originally appeared in the Frontline Health Workers Coalition Blog.Sunita Kumari was struggling to get her message across. Working as an auxiliary nurse midwife in Gumla District,...
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Six Steps on the Long Road to Gender Equality
In the 2012 Delhi gang rape case, a 23-year-old aspiring health worker was beaten and gang raped while traveling in a private bus with a male friend. Thirteen days later, she died.The victim's ordeal...
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It’s Time to Measure the ROI (Return on Innovation)
It’s time to look holistically at the costs and benefits of introducing and scaling up eHealth and mHealth initiatives.In 2008, the Bellagio eHealth Call to Action called upon the global health...
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A Multidimensional Approach to Safeguarding Health Workers
“While the hospital compound was safe, we could easily hear gunfire and bombings…we were scared… for the last one month, we did not have access to cooking gas and had to use electric heaters to cook...
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Mentoring for Karnataka Health Workers Means Better Care for Mothers and Babies
There is nothing quite like a birth, no matter where in the world you are.Last month, I had the privilege to observe several mothers bring new life into the world in health facilities in northern...
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Partnering across Public and Private Sectors to Beat TB in India
This post originally appeared on the Huffington Post.Every year, nine million people contract tuberculosis (TB). If it takes you five minutes to read this article, 81 people will have contracted TB by...
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How Access to Tuberculosis Care Helps a Family in Patna, Bihar
Maina Devi, 30, lives in Patna, a city of 1.6 million people in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states.Until mid-2014, Maina Devi’s life was like that of her neighbors, days spent taking care of the...
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A Walk through Maternal Health Care in Rural India with mSakhi
The two-room health center in Jhansi District has two beds, a chair, and a table. In one of the rooms, an auxiliary nurse midwife types a newly pregnant woman’s weight and blood pressure into mSakhi,...
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