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Condemn the Increasing Communalism and Casteism in Karnataka

Vol. 57, Issue No. 19, 07 May, 2022
Sylvia Karpagam, Zubera Tahseen, Vivek D’souza, Veena Shatrugna, Vandana Prasad, and others.

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Public–Private Partnerships in Healthcare

Vol. 56, Issue No. 36, 04 Sep, 2021
Sulakshana Nandi, Vandana Prasad, Deepika Joshi, Indira Chakravarthi, Ganapathy Murugan, Shahnawaz Khan, Mohammed Allam Ashraf, Pallavi Gupta, Chandan Kumar

Current evidence points to the mixed performance of public–private partnerships in India and globally. A detailed study of the formulation and performance of specifi c PPPs in the healthcare sector in Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Delhi reveals that PPPs faced challenges similar to the government health system. Though they fi lled a gap in some cases, their long-term implications and sustainability need more serious assessment.

Misconceived Measures for Malnutrition

Vol. 56, Issue No. 14, 03 Apr, 2021
Vandana Prasad

The recent Government of India recommendation for monthly length/height measurements by anganwadi workers promises to be a disaster in its current form and might lead to a severe derailing of the existing system of data collection and management, leading to further chaos and misreporting on malnutrition.

Hunger and Structural Inequality

Vol. 51, Issue No. 1, 02 Jan, 2016
Vandana Prasad, Radha Holla, Dipa Sinha, Sejal Dand, Arun Gupta, Veena Shatrughna, Jean Dreze, Devika Singh and Sachin Jain

We consider that the right to food is a universal human right. Violation of this right results in hunger and malnutrition.

Contrived Confusions

Vol. 50, Issue No. 10, 07 Mar, 2015
Vandana Prasad

Ethical dilemmas surrounding abortion, particularly the conflict between human and legal rights of a childbearing woman and the so-called rights of an unborn child, are quite legitimate. However, the pro-life activists should desist from treating a woman as mere receptacle for the unborn child, taking away her inalienable right to control her own body.

Are Child Malnutrition Figures for India Exaggerated?

Vol. 48, Issue No. 34, 24 Aug, 2013
Arun Gupta, Biraj Patnaik, Devika Singh, Dipa Sinha, R Srivatsan, Radha Holla, Sachin Jain, Samir Garg, Sejal Dand, Sulakshana Nandi, Vandana Prasad, Veena Shatrugna
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